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This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise (Signature Editions)
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise follows Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner confident in his bright future. The novel traces his romantic entanglements with Isabelle Borge, a wealthy debutante; Rosalind Connage, a narcissistic flapper; and Eleanor, a rebellious atheist. An autobiographical work, it vividly captures the spirit of the Jazz Age and marked the literary debut of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel about love and greed in the Jazz Age, now repackaged for Union Square & Co’s Signature Classics line.

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Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, is convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future. The reader follows Amory as he falls in love with Isabelle Borge, a wealthy young debutante; a cruel and narcissistic flapper named Rosalind Connage; and Eleanor, a reckless eighteen-year-old atheist.

An autobiographical novel and a portrait of the dawning Jazz Age, This Side of Paradise launched F. Scott Fitzgerald's career and turned him into an overnight literary sensation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781435172326

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Union Square & Co.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) was a celebrated author of novels and short stories whose work is synonymous with the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties of the early twentiethth century. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled Lost Generation, Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.

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