American Classics Collection

Description

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Whether you love the glamour of upper class New York, are passionate about the history of Puritan New England or are intrigued by the hard times of late nineteenth-century Mississippi, pivotal American literature unfolds in this collection of classic novels. The American Classics Collections box set includes four beautifully designed, pocket-sized editions of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, with new introductions and bespoke covers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota in 1896. He is considered a member of the 'Lost Generation' of the 1920s and his novels depict the Jazz Age. His third novel, The Great Gatsby, has sold millions of copies. Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence, and she was also thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem in 1804 and spent his life as a writer. He disowned and burned his first novel, Fanshawe, but assured his reputation with The Scarlet Letter twenty years later. Mark Twain is the pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in 1835 in Missouri, which provided the inspiration for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.