This Side of Paradise - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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ISBN 10: 0451526104 ISBN 13: 9780451526106

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1996

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The author's classic first novel follows the intellectual, spiritual, and sexual education of Amory Blaine in early 1900s America, from his prep school and Princeton education through his idealism in Jazz Age New York. Reprint.

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Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and infamous: famous for the stylish exuberance of his writing and infamous for the errors--in spelling, fact, grammar, and chronology--that peppered his text. This new edition brings into being an accurate, fully annotated text based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript.

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