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This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 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 protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a wealthy and attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has a series of romances that eventually lead to his disillusionment. In his later novels, Fitzgerald would further develop the book's theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. This Side Of Paradise book cover This image is a book cover. ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ...
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A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ...
Charles Scribners Sons is a publisher that was founded in 1846 at the Brick Church Chapel on New Yorks Park Row. ...
See also: 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature. ...
A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ...
Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ...
A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ...
See also: 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature. ...
A statue of Rupert Brooke in Rugby Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 – April 23, 1915) was a British poet best known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War. ...
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Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ...
Many consider Amory Blaine to be at least partially based on Fitzgerald himself, who, like Amory, attended Princeton University before joining the Army. The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States armed forces and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...
Widely considered to be one of Fitzgerald's weaker works because of his relative inexperience and youth at the time of writing, This Side of Paradise is nonetheless a work of great literary merit. It is, however, undeniably a book meant for the young.[citation needed]
The novel's original 1920 publication by Scribner's sparked Fitzgerald's stardom. With its success as proof of his means, Fitzgerald was able to marry Montgomery socialite Zelda Sayre. Charles Scribners Sons is a publisher that was founded in 1846 at the Brick Church Chapel on New Yorks Park Row. ...
Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Mayor Bobby Bright Area - City 404. ...
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 - March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom she married in 1920. ...
Excerpt from the novel
(Book 1: The Romantic Egotist, Chapter 1: Amory, Son of Beatrice):
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her.
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Thomas Parke DInvilliers is both a pen name of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and a character in his quasi-autobiographical first novel, This Side Of Paradise. ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ...
The Beautiful and Damned , F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoons fortune), and the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. ...
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
Tender is the Night book cover Tender is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
The Love of the Last Tycoon book cover The Love of the Last Tycoon is a novel based roughly on the life of film executive Irving Thalberg by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died in 1940 before finishing it. ...
Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. ...
The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald between 1939 and 1940, the year of his death. ...
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
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Babylon Revisited is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1930 and first published in the The Saturday Evening Post on February 21, 1931, and had many parallels to Fitzgeralds own life, both personal and historical. ...
Bernice Bobs Her Hair is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1920 and first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year. ...
The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgeralds short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. ...
Benediction is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgeralds short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. ...
Head and Shoulders is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald written and published in 1920. ...
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