F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...

Raised by a wealthy, idiosyncratic and alcoholic mother, Amory Blaine is arrogant and lacking in proper social etiquette which he eventually has to learn. En route from the Midwest to Princeton University, he experiences flirtations with some predatory young women and a chance at friendship with some intellectual young men. His romantic relationship ended when his soul-mate rejected him to marry a wealthier young man.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep...

F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America's greatest writers. His novel The Great Gatsby remains on the bestseller lists 70 years after his death. Tales of the Jazz Age defined a generation. It was Fitzgerald himself who coined the phrase. He and his wife lived a decadent, fast-paced lifestyle that is reflected in his writing. The recent major motion pictures The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is included in this collection,...

A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is, sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.

Shocking in a clever, poignant way, this story is about a pitiful young guy, who falls in love from afar with a beautiful, wealthy, young and vivacious girl with russet red hair. A seemingly chance run-in with her has a profound impact on the rest of his life.

A young girl, on her way to a tryst with her lover, stops to meet her much older brother, who is in a seminary and about to become a priest.

A young southern woman is bored with her unchanging environment, and-much to her friends' chagrin-gets engaged to a northern man. After disregarding their concerns, she travels north during the winter to visit her fiancé's home town and meet his family, and comes to a major realization.

A woman wants to find a wealthy man to marry finds a lot more than she bargains, for when she enters the abode of Knowleton Whitney, who, in turn, finds a lot more than he bargained for.

The son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in a small Minnesota town, finds himself enacting a series of impetuous deeds inspired by his so-called 'winter dreams', which drive him to desire material success. But, can they drive him to the woman of his dreams?