
This Side of Paradise
Deluxe Annotated Edition
F. Scott Fitzgerald(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-84749-222-7 (ISBN)
Description
This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution. A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity.
Reviews / Votes
He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-222-7 (9781847492227)
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Person
Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.