| This Side of Paradise Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1514310473 ISBN-13: 9781514310472 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.37 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9" (0.61 lbs) 202 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 106148 Reading Level: 7.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. In the summer of 1919, after several years of courtship, Zelda Sayre broke up with the 22-year-old Fitzgerald. After a summer of heavy alcohol use, he returned to St. Paul, Minnesota where his family lived, to complete the novel, hoping that if he became a successful novelist he could win Zelda back. While at Princeton, Fitzgerald had written an unpublished novel called The Romantic Egotist and ultimately 80 pages of the typescript of this earlier work ended up in This Side of Paradise. This book is written in three parts. Book One: The Romantic Egotist; Interlude; Book Two: The Education of a Personage. |