This Side of ParadisePublished in 1920, F.Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side Of Paradise, became the novel that defined an era and launched his literary career. This is the story of Amory Blaine, "romantic egotist," and his journey from prep school to Princeton to the First World War. This dazzling chronicle of youth and the Jazz Age remains bitingly relevant decades later. The story of Amory Blaine's adolescence and undergraduate days at Princeton, This side of pradise captures the essence of an American generation struggling to define itself in the aftermath of World War I and the destruction of "the old order"F |
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