This Side of Paradise (Vintage Classics)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

ISBN 10: 0307474518 / ISBN 13: 9780307474513

Published by Vintage, 2009

About this Item

The item is showing use from the previous owner but works perfectly. Signs of previous ownership which could include: tears, scuffing, notes, excessive highlighting, gift inscriptions, slight water damage, a missing dust jacket, and library markings.

Seller Inventory # 4BQWN800537U

Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Side of Paradise (Vintage Classics)
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307474518
• ISBN 13: 9780307474513
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of young Amory Blaine--egoistic, versatile, callow, imaginative. As Amory makes his way among debutantes and Princeton undergraduates, we enter an environment heady with the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America after World War I. We experience Amory's sailing hopes, crushing defeats, deep loves and stubborn losses. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood unfolds with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald's remarkable formal inventiveness couches Amory's narrative among songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. The novel's freshness and verve--praised upon publication, now renowned by history--only heighten the sense that the world being described is our own, modern world.

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in 1896 and died in 1940.