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This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise By F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald


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Summary

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.

This Side of Paradise Summary

This Side of Paradise: Deluxe Annotated Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

This Side of Paradise Reviews

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

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GOR006317301
9781847492227
1847492223
This Side of Paradise: Deluxe Annotated Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Used - Good
Paperback
Alma Books Ltd
20120927
288
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