This Side of Paradise (a new edition with author's corrections and an introduction by M. J. Bruccoli)

This Side of Paradise with a new introduction by Bruccoli  (Signet Classics Edition) 

Paperback – Nov, 2006

by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (Author)

NOW INCLUDING THE AUTHOR'S CORRECTED TEXT

With an Introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli

The accomplished and heartbreaking first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame at the age of twenty-three.

Considered scandalous (and brilliant) when it was published in 1920, This Side of Paradise describes the intellectual, spiritual, and sexual education of young Amory Blaine in the tumultuous America of the early twentieth century. Highly sophisticated yet hopelessly romantic, Amory flounders from prep school to Princeton to glittering Jazz Age New York, confident that he is destined for greatness but unsure how to go about it. Fitzgerald's razor-sharp re-creation of a defiant, disillusioned generation "grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" makes This Side of Paradise a timeless autobiographical novel of youth and alienation. It moves from tenderness to cynicism to hope with the grace and power that make Fitzgerald one of the greatest of American writers.
 

 Product details

• Format  Paperback | 270 pages
• Dimensions  105 x 172 x 19 mm | 145 g
• Publication date  Nov 2006
• Publisher  Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint  SIGNET CLASSICS
• Publication City/Country  New York, United States
• Language  English
• Edition Statement  Reissue
• ISBN0  0451530349
• ISBN9 9780451530349