This Side of Paradise (Penguin Modern Classics)

by F . Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $11.88

  Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.

• Used

  Paperback
  1970

  $3.35

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $6.05

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $14.10

• New

  Hardcover
  1996

  $14.46

  Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, written when the author was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a leading literary figure in the brilliant and dangerous world of 1920s America. The novel tells the story of a spoilt child in search of happiness. Pampered as a child, wealthy, brilliant at school, Amory Blaine looks for the love of others but only finds himself. A short, sharp masterpiece with an intriguing religious undertow, this is also a touchingly autobiographical novel which reflects ominously on Fitzgerald's own future.