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Tender is the Night (The Complete Classics)

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I purchased all six of these books from the Canadian Amazon website (amazon.ca) several weeks ago because I couldn't bear to wait any longer for them to show up on the American site.

The covers are just gorgeous. The art is metallic and beautiful and the covers have a soft feel to them. The inside flap of the cover is perforated and is designed to be removed and used as a matching bookmark.

The cover art for this set of F. Scott Fitzgerald books was designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith - the genius behind the similarly beautiful Penguin cloth-bound classics series. Not only is the literature itself classic, but the books look like a classic collector's item as well! Friends compliment me on them all the time when they see them on my bookcase!

Unlike another reviewer, I have no issue with the text in my copies. It is clear and dark throughout, and definitely doesn't look faded or photocopied. Also, I can confirm that the introductions to the other Fitzgeralds in the series are written by different authors than the author of the introduction to Tender is the Night.

Beautifully packaged and designed -- one in a series of Fitzgerald books covered by Coralie Bickford-Smith -- but the print is oddly misshapen and faint at times, as if it were photocopied, and this has one of the worst introductions to Fitzgerald's work I've ever read, by Arnold Goldman. His notes aren't any good either. I was thinking about picking up all the books in this series, but until I can determine if the rest of the introductions are as bad (which I can't do on Amazon) I'm going to hold off.