num_pages: 352
description: This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of "the lost generation." The young "romantic egotist" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later." This Side of Paradise commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit," wrote Edmund Wilson. "But it does not commit the unpardonable it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life."
language: English
title: This Side of Paradise
titlecomplete: This Side of Paradise (Modern Library 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: 71833
places: Princeton, New Jersey, Maryland, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York City, New York, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Princeton University, New Jersey, New Jersey
publisher: Modern Library