This Side of Paradise Mass market paperbound - 2006
by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Matthew Bruccoli
Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted Fitzgerald to literary fame at the age of 23. It follows the education--intellectual, spiritual, and sexual--of young Amory Blaine. Revised and repackaged.
Summary
From the jacket flap
First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the struggles and doubts of Amory Blaine, a self-proclaimed genius with a love of knowledge and a penchant for the romantic. As Amory journeys into adulthood and leaves the aristocratic egotism of his youth behind, he becomes painfully aware of his lost innocence and the new sense of responsibility and regret that has taken its place.
Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual. It is a complex portrait of a versatile mind in a restless generation that reveals rich ideas crucial to an understanding of the 1920s and timeless truths about the human need for--and fear of--change. "A very enlivening book indeed, a book really brilliant and glamorous, making as agreeable reading as could be asked . . . There are clever things, keen and searching things, amusingly young and mistaken things, beautiful things and pretty things . . . and truly inspired and elevated things, an astonishing abundance of each, in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. You could call it the youthful Byronism that is normal in a man of the author's type, working out through a well-furnished intellect of unusual critical force."
--The Evening Post, 1920"An astonishing and refreshing book . . . Mr. Fitzgerald has recorded with a good deal of felicity and a disarming frankness the adventures and developments of a curiousand fortunate American youth. . . . [It is] delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life. At last the revelation has come. We have the constant young American occupation--the 'petting party'--frankly and humorously in our literature."
--The New Republic, 1920
First Edition Identification
Charles Scribner’s Sons published a First Edition, First Printing in New York, 1920.
Details
- Title This Side of Paradise
- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Matthew Bruccoli
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Book, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-11-07
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780451530349 / 0451530349
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 in (17.02 x 10.41 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1070
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007295824
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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