This Side of Paradise (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439198985 ISBN 13: 9781439198988

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Published when he was twenty-three years old, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise, established him as the golden boy of the dawning Jazz Age. As a chronicle of youth, no other literary work remains as revealing—or as bitingly relevant.

THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

· A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information

· A chronology of the author’s life and work

· A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context

· An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader’s own interpretations

· Detailed explanatory notes

· Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work

· Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

· A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience

Simon & Schuster Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world’s finest books to their full potential.

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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: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439198985
• ISBN 13: 9781439198988
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400