num_pages: 288
description: THE ACCOMPLISHED AND HEARTBREAKING FIRST NOVEL THAT CATAPULTED F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO LITERARY FAME AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREEConsidered scandalous (and brilliant) when it was published in 1920, This Side of Paradise describes the intellectual, spiritual, and sexual education of young Amory Blaine in the tumultuous America of the early twentieth century. Highly sophisticated yet hopelessly romantic, Amory flounders from prep school to Princeton to glittering Jazz Age New York, confident that he is destined for greatness but unsure how to go about it.  Fitzgerald’s razor-sharp re-creation of a defiant, disillusioned generation “grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken” makes This Side of Paradise a timeless autobiographical novel of youth and alienation. It moves from tenderness to cynicism to hope with the grace and power that make Fitzgerald one of the greatest of American writers.NOW INCLUDING THE AUTHOR’S CORRECTED TEXTWith an Introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli
language: English
title: This Side of Paradise
titlecomplete: This Side of Paradise (Signet Classics)
characters: Rosalind Connage, Monsignor Thayer Darcy, Isabelle Borgé, Dick Humbird, Myra St. Clare, Cecilia Connage, Tom D'Invilliers, Beatrice Blaine, Alec Connage, Clara Page, Kerry Holiday, Eleanor Savage, Burne Holiday, Amory Blaine
genres: 20th Century, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 71831
places: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, New Jersey, New Jersey, Maryland, New York City, New York
publisher: Signet