This Side of Paradise - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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ISBN 10: 1505281954 ISBN 13: 9781505281958

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

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About the Author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby his most famous and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.

Review

''A truly amazing first novel.'' --H. L. Mencken --American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English

''Bears the impress of genius . . . Splendid and fascinating.'' --Chicago Tribune

''The glorious spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale . . . As a picture of the daily existence of what we call loosely 'college men,' this book is as nearly perfect as such a work could be . . . It could have been written only by an artist who knows how to balance his values, plus a delightful literary style.'' --New York Times

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