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Publisher Comments:

The debut of an American original.

Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows the education-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young Amory Blaine.

Synopsis:

This Side of Paradise is the brilliantly polished, largely autobiographical first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to international fame in 1920. This classic novel of youth and alienation has been written with all the grace and power that has made Fitzgerald one of America's most highly respected authors. A major course adoption title.
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About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as ‘grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken’. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that ‘He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a “generation” … he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.’
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780451526106
Introduction:
Parini, Jay
Author:
Parini, Jay
Author:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Author:
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Publisher:
Signet Classics
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
American
Subject:
United states
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Advertising
Subject:
College students
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Young men -- United States -- Fiction.
Subject:
Bildungsromane.
Subject:
Children of the rich
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Series Volume:
no. 33
Publication Date:
19960101
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
6.85x4.16x.78 in. .31 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , This Side of Paradise is the brilliantly polished, largely autobiographical first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to international fame in 1920. This classic novel of youth and alienation has been written with all the grace and power that has made Fitzgerald one of America's most highly respected authors. A major course adoption title.
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