This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise - Paperback

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This Side of Paradise - Paperback

This Side of Paradise - Paperback

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Book Overview

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of young Amory Blaine--egoistic, versatile, callow, imaginative. As Amory makes his way among debutantes and Princeton undergraduates, we enter an environment heady with the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America after World War I. We experience Amory's sailing hopes, crushing defeats, deep loves and stubborn losses. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood unfolds with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald's remarkable formal inventiveness couches Amory's narrative among songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. The novel's freshness and verve--praised upon publication, now renowned by history--only heighten the sense that the world being described is our own, modern world.

Author Biography

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in 1896 and died in 1940.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.59 x 8.18 x 5 IN
Publication Date: September 08, 2009
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: This Side of Paradise
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 14
ISBN9780307474513
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2009
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

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