This Side Of Paradise
$42.34
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
23 August 1996
Summary
Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, written when the author was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a leading literary figure in the brilliant and dangerous world of 1920s America. The novel tells the story of a spoilt child in search of happiness. Pampered as a child, wealthy, brilliant at school, Amory Blaine looks for the love of others but only finds himself. A short, sharp masterpiece with an intriguing religious undertow, this is also a touchingly autobiographic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152272 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152271 |
| Author: | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 23 August 1996 |
| Weight: | 438g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 135mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
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