A Seperate Peace

5148Author: John Knowles

Published by Scribner

Genre: Classics

Pages: 204

“Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.” –Goodreads

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The Great Gatsby

thegreatgatsby_1925jacketAuthor: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published by Scribner

Genre: Historical drama

Pages: 180

“This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.” –Goodreads

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