num_pages: 304
description: This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation."
language: English
title: This Side of Paradise
titlecomplete: This Side of Paradise (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
characters: Kerry Holiday, Amory Blaine, Myra St. Clare, Cecilia Connage, Dick Humbird, Rosalind Connage, Eleanor Savage, Monsignor Thayer Darcy, Isabelle Borgé, Tom D'Invilliers, Beatrice Blaine, Alec Connage, Burne Holiday, Clara Page
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 71849
places: Princeton, New Jersey, Maryland, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York City, New York, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Princeton University, New Jersey, New Jersey
publisher: Penguin Classics