This Side of Paradise (Esprios Classics) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798210343635)

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of romances with flappers. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking, and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti. Within months of its publication, This Side of Paradise became a cultural sensation in the United States, and reviewers hailed the work as the best novel of the decade.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN-13: 9798210343635
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2024
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d