A young college student realizes his anxieties, frustrations, and ideals are not typical of his generation
Perhaps the definitive novel of that "Lost Generation," it tells the story of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student who halfheartedly involves himself in literary cults, "liberal" student activities, and a series of empty ...
Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Fitzgerald's first novel in the authoritative Cambridge edition, now available as a paperback.
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...
Follows the story of Amory Blaine from prep school to Princeton to the First World War, in an autobiographical coming-of-age novel capturing the rhythms of a generation and of America early in the twentieth century. Reprint.
Fitzgerald's first novel, a popular success that defined the "flapper" generation. It recounts the quest of Amory Blaine for self-realization and the disillusionment he finds in trying to conform, to find love and to pursue wealth.
Or can he win her at all? Can love survive the greed and the social climbing or will it be crushed and left to die on this side of paradise? This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.
He exemplifies the young men and women of the 20s who grew up to find "all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Fitzgerald's first novel and an immediate, spectacular success.
First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century.
This turned out to be the Honorable Thornton Hancock, of Boston, ex-minister to The Hague, author of an erudite history of the Middle Ages and the last of a distinguished ...