This Side of Paradise
 Dust jacket cover of first edition | |
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Cover artist | W. E. Hill |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | March 26, 1920 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 305 pp (first edition hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781593082437 (Barnes & Noble paperback) |
| Followed by | The Beautiful and Damned (1922) |
This Side of Paradise is the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was first sold in 1920.
Plot Summary
[change | change source]Amory Blaine leaves his mother and friend behind to go to a good American university. At university he falls in love with a girl called Isabelle, but she is not interested in Amory. Amory then goes to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the war, he falls in love with Rosalind. Because Amory is poor, Rosalind is not interested in him and decides to marry someone else. Amory then learns that his friend from home has died.
References
[change | change source]- Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph (2002), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 978-1-57003-455-8
- Prigozy, Ruth, ed. (2002), The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-62447-3
Other websites
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Wikisource has original writing related to this article:
- This Side of Paradise at Project Gutenberg
- This Side of Paradise
- alternate. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Scanned book from Internet Archive.
- This Side of Paradise Map Archived 2009-08-11 at the Wayback Machine