This side of paradise
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- Publication date
- 1920
- Topics
- World War (1914-1918), World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction, Children of the rich -- Fiction, College students -- Fiction, Advertising -- Fiction, Young men -- Fiction, Advertising, Children of the rich, College students, Veterans, Young men
- Publisher
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
- Collection
- marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
5 preliminary leaves, 3-305 pages ; 20 cm
Describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned -- the post-World War I "lost generation."
"Published April 1920. Reprinted twice in April, 1920. Reprinted May, June, July, August, September, 1920. October 1920"--Verso of title page
A novel
Book One. The romantic egotist: Amory, son of Beatrice ; Spires and gargoyles ; The egotist considers; Narcissus off duty -- Interlude: May, 1917--February, 1919 -- Book Two. The education of a personage: The debutante ; Experiments in convalescence ; Young irony ; The supercilious sacrifice ; The egotist becomes a personage
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 and has the book's theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. In the summer of 1919, 22-year-old Fitzgerald broke up with the girl he had been courting, Zelda Sayre. After being drunk for much of the summer he returned to St. Paul, Minnesota, where his family lived
committed to retain 20170930
Describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned -- the post-World War I "lost generation."
"Published April 1920. Reprinted twice in April, 1920. Reprinted May, June, July, August, September, 1920. October 1920"--Verso of title page
A novel
Book One. The romantic egotist: Amory, son of Beatrice ; Spires and gargoyles ; The egotist considers; Narcissus off duty -- Interlude: May, 1917--February, 1919 -- Book Two. The education of a personage: The debutante ; Experiments in convalescence ; Young irony ; The supercilious sacrifice ; The egotist becomes a personage
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 and has the book's theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. In the summer of 1919, 22-year-old Fitzgerald broke up with the girl he had been courting, Zelda Sayre. After being drunk for much of the summer he returned to St. Paul, Minnesota, where his family lived
committed to retain 20170930
- Addeddate
- 2020-11-10 23:46:17
- Associated-names
- Connors, Robert S., former owner; Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection
- Boxid
- IA1799011
- Camera
- Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control)
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- COL-609
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- urn:oclc:record:1225969618
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- 0
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- thissideofparadi0000fitz_s9i3
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- Invoice
- 1652
- Isbn
-
0684800721
9780684800721
9781484937884
1484937880
- Lccn
- 20006430
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- Pages
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- References
- Bruccoli A5.I.f; Bruccoli A5.I.i
- Republisher_date
- 20200514092108
- Republisher_operator
- associate-ronamye-cabale@archive.org;associate-jeana-galido@archive.org
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- 827
- Scandate
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