This Side of Paradise (The Complete Fitzgerald's Collection - Alma Classics): Scott F. Fitzgerald. (The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection): Deluxe Annotated Edition

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2012
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This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution.

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This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 24 May 2012
ISBN 10: 1847492223
ISBN 13: 9781847492227

Media Reviews

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

Author Bio

Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.