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Alternately self-confident and self-effacing, torn between ambition and idleness, the self-absorbed, immature Amory yearns to run with Princeton s rich, fast crowd and become one of the gods of the campus. Hopelessly romantic, he learns about love and sex from a series of beautiful young flappers, women who leave him both exhilarated and devastated. Fitzgerald describes it all in intensely lyrical prose that fills the novel with a heartbreaking sense of longing, as Amory comes to understand that the sweet-scented springtime of his life is fragile and fleeting, disappearing into memory even as he reaches for it.Sharon G. Carson is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Kent State University, where she has taught for thirty-five years. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on modern and contemporary fiction." |
Contents
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE | 1 |
Spires and Gargoyles | 36 |
The Egotist Considers | 84 |
Narcissus Off Duty | 111 |
The Débutante | 155 |
Experiments in Convalescence | 186 |
Young Irony | 207 |
The Supercilious Sacrifice | 226 |
The Egotist Becomes a Personage | 236 |
Endnotes | 263 |
Comments Questions | 269 |
For Further Reading | 275 |
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