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This Side of Paradise (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

 
9781439198988: This Side of Paradise (Enriched Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1439198985 ISBN 13: 9781439198988
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Published when he was twenty-three years old, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise, established him as the golden boy of the dawning Jazz Age. As a chronicle of youth, no other literary work remains as revealing—or as bitingly relevant.

This Side of Paradise chronicles the life of Amory Blaine, a handsome and intelligent Midwesterner, from his childhood up through his early twenties, navigating schooling, love, and war. It is written in three parts: The Romantic Egotist, Interlude, and The Education of a Personage.

This edition includes:
-A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
-A chronology of the author’s life and work
-A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context
-An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader’s own interpretations
-Detailed explanatory notes
-Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work
-Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
-A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience

Simon & Schuster Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world’s finest books to their full potential.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s novels include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1439198985
ISBN 13 
9781439198988
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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