This Side of Paradise
Published on 1. January 2018
289 pages
978-0-7145-4743-5 (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.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- This Side of Paradise
- Book One: The Romantic Egotist
- Book Two: The Education of a Personage
- Note on the Text
- Notes
- Extra Material
