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This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzerald
This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, Thi...  more » closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of "the lost generation." The young "romantic egotist" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later.

"This Side of Paradise commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit," wrote Edmund Wilson. "But it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life."
ISBN-13: 9780451526106
ISBN-10: 0451526104
Publication Date: 1/1/1996
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Signet Classics
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Very typical Fitzgerald...a really quick read.
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This book is paperback.
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The story of Amory Blaine--from prep school to Princeton, from his moral education to his sexual awakening--it follows this young "romantic egotist" to the beginning of his quest for a great destiny.
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The only Fitgerald book I've read, I found his writing lyrical and impressive. He wrote the kind of sentences that you repeat to your friends.
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I'm not really a Fitzgerald fan, But those who are will enjoy the book


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