Fitzgerald Treasury - The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and

<p><strong><em>Complete</em></strong> editions </em>of <strong><em>The Great Gatsby</em></strong>, <strong><em>This Side of Paradise</em></strong>, and <strong><em>The Beautiful and Damned</em> </strong>by F. Scott Fitzgerald</em>. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.</p><p><br></p><p>His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920's America, are haunting classics that stays with the reader.</p><p> </p><p>From <strong><em>The Great Gatsby </em></strong>(1925): <strong><em> </em></strong>"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life..."</p><p> </p><p>From <strong><em>This Side of Paradise</em></strong> (1920): "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."</p><p> </p><p>From <strong><em>The Beautiful and Damned </em></strong>(1922): "As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his enviro