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This Side of Paradise is F. Scott Fitzgerald's somewhat biographical debut novel examining the lives and morality of post-World War I youth and explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.. Amory Blaine, is a Princeton University student who dabbles in literature, "liberal" student activities, and a series of flirtations with young women. When he does fall in love the young woman rejects him for another.

“This Side of Paradise” is the first novel written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). First published in 1920, it tells the story of Amory Blaine, a student of Princeton who tries to find his way in the world, through love adventures and social ambitions.This edition also contains:- a Fitzgerald’s extra-story, “Winter Dreams” (1922);- twenty-five dazzling aphorisms taken from Fitzgerald’s works.- a detailed bibliography of Fitzgerald’s novels and short stories.

This edition includes 10 illustrations. Every famous writer has that first novel which puts him or her on the map, and for F. Scott Fitzgerald that was his debut work This Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald’s first significant foray into the world of literature was well received by critics, some of whom recognized the emerging genius of its author. With characters based largely on people from Fitzgerald’s real life – including the infamous Zelda Sayre, who would agree to marry him thanks to Paradise’s 1920 publication – the novel spoke to a changing American society that would shortly see an explosion of youthful decadence and glamour.

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” First published in 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel ‘This Side of Paradise’ was a sizzling sensation that put the young American author on the map. Its initial printing of 3,000 copies sold out in three days. The novel’s hero is Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled and snobbish young man from the Mid West who attends Princeton University where he searches in vain for meaning in the dissolute lives of the young rich elite. Lacking all sense of purpose, he begins a series of flirtations that culminate in a genuine but ill-fated love for a young woman who rejects him to marry a wealthier man. During the war, Amory serves as an officer in France, and upon his return home he embarks upon a career in advertising, world-weary, cynical, regretful, and not yet thirty years old ... Virtually a record of the ‘Lost Generation’ in its college days, the novel treats Fitzgerald’s characteristic theme of true love blighted by money lust and is remarkable for its honest and detailed descriptions of the early Jazz Age.

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”First published in 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel This Side of Paradise was a sizzling sensation that put the young American author on the map. Its initial printing of 3,000 copies sold out in three days. The novel’s hero is Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled and snobbish young man from the Mid West who attends Princeton University where he searches in vain for meaning in the dissolute lives of the young rich elite. Lacking all sense of purpose, he begins a series of flirtations that culminate in a genuine but ill-fated love for a young woman who rejects him to marry a wealthier man. During the war, Amory serves as an officer in France, and upon his return home he embarks upon a career in advertising, world-weary, cynical, regretful, and not yet thirty years old ...Virtually a record of the ‘Lost Generation’ in its college days, the novel treats Fitzgerald’s characteristic theme of true love blighted by money lust and is remarkable for its honest and detailed descriptions of the early Jazz Age.Included in this Special Edition:*Original Norman Rockwell illustrations specially reformatted for the Kindle.*Audio links to free full-length recordings of ‘This Side of Paradise.’*Active Table of Contents accessible from the Kindle "go to" feature.

"It bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius. It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood." -Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune THIS SIDE OF PARADISE is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking. The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers, Monsignor Darcy. While at Princeton he goes back to Minneapolis where he re-encounters Isabelle Borge, a young lady whom he met as a little boy, and starts a romantic relationship with her at Princeton he repeatedly writes ever more flowery poems but they become disenchanted with each after meeting again at his prom . . . (more on: www.wisehouse-classics.com)"

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920 and taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.BONUS :• This Side of Paradise Audiobook.• Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.• The 19 Best F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes.

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year."It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote to Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott.… You are a fine writer. Believe it—not me."Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character—lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative—Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of a "modern Orpheus."