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This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution. A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald’s first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity.

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He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

This Side of Paradise: Deluxe Annotated Edition

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      Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/09/2012
      ISBN13: 9781847492227, 978-1847492227
      ISBN10: 1847492223
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution. A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald’s first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity.

      Trade Review
      He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

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