This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise,F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text,This Side of Paradisecaptures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation."

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time between New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of fourty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE: THE ROMANTIC EGOTIST

CHAPTER

I. Amory, Son of Beatrice
II. Spires and Gargoyles
III. The Egotist Considers
IV. Narcissus Off Duty
[Interlude: May 1917-February 1919.]

BOOK TWO: THE EDUCATION OF A PERSONAGE

CHAPTER

I. The Debutante
II. Experiments in Convalescence
III. Young Irony
IV. The Supercilious Sacrifice
V. The Egotist Becomes a Personage
Preface
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
A Note on the Text
Further Reading
Notes
A Brief Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise

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