num_pages: 254
description: Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920.
language: English
title: This Side of Paradise
titlecomplete: This Side of Paradise
characters: Monsignor Thayer Darcy, Beatrice Blaine, Dick Humbird, Eleanor Savage, Clara Page, Kerry Holiday, Isabelle Borgé, Amory Blaine, Alec Connage, Tom D'Invilliers, Burne Holiday, Myra St. Clare, Rosalind Connage, Cecilia Connage
genres: 20th Century, Novels, Literature, Romance, Classics, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 71875
places: Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, Maryland, Princeton University, New Jersey, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York City, New York
publisher: Penguin Group USA