Three great American novels The great Gatsby [by] F. Scott Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. A farewell to arms [by] Ernest hemingway, with an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. Ethan Frome [by] Edith Wharton with an introduction by Edith Wharton. - Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key 1896-1940. The great Gatsby; Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961. A farewll to arms.; Wharton, Edith Newhold (Jones) 1862-1937. Ethan Frome (New York Scribner, 1967)