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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The story of Amory Blaine's adolescence and undergraduate days at Princeton, This Side of Paradise captures the essence of an American generation struggling to define itself in the aftermath of World War I and the destruction of "the old order".
Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxx).
About the AuthorF. 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.’ Table of ContentsThis Side of Paradise Acknowledgments Introduction by Patrick O'Donnell Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Text This Side of Paradise
Book One: The Romantic Egotist I. Amory, Son of Beatrice II. Spires and Gargoyles III. The Egotist Considers IV. Narcissus Off Duty
[Interlude: May, 1917 - February, 1919.]
Book Two: The Education of a Personage I. The Débutante II. Experiments in Convalescence III. Young Irony IV. The Supercilious Sacrifice V. The Egotist Becomes a Personage
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