This Side of Paradise - Softcover

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406944734 ISBN 13: 9781406944730

Publisher: Hard Press, 2006

Synopsis

Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work embodies the Jazz Age. This, his debut novel, was first published in 1920.

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Review:

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.

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hard Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406944734
• ISBN 13: 9781406944730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274