F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'.

In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.

Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California) American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as celebrated as his novels.

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Lauren Marshall Roby is a digital artist and entrepreneur from sunny Florida. Her love for art and design influences every page of her notebook and journal collection. When she is not immersed in Photoshop, you can find her spending time with her husband and three wonderful sons.

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We believe strongly in the popularization of classic novels.

Classic works, often, are presented as boring or heavy. This is not the truth! It is the reader who, more often than not, cannot adapt to a language that, over time, has drastically changed.

Sometimes it can be difficult to read books that were written 100 years ago or earlier, which is why we strive to enrich these works with an introduction that helps the reader become fully immersed in the novel.

Reading classic novels also means understanding the culture of the time, which, without fear of contradiction, is anything but boring or heavy.

Our goal is to make authors like Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley as modern as possible, bringing the reader back to the culture that produced such successful works, while keeping their originality intact.

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