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This Side of Paradise (Enriched Classics)
This Side of Paradise - Enriched Classics
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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: 9780671535551
ISBN-10: 0671535552
Publication Date: 8/1/1995
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
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Maybe a tad slow going, but by and large, you'll fall in love with Amory. If you stick with this one, I promise it's worth it -- the last 50 pages fly by and will endear this character to you beyond all others. Probably the most stunning part is that this is Fitzgerald's first novel - and semi-autobiographical.
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