The description of the carefree, pampered years of a boy reared in the world of private schools and elite universities showed us an inward looking generation indoctrinated in the beliefs of their parents. Readers will empathize with the characters in this book because nearly everyone has at one time in their lives felt as they did at one point in the novel. Scott fitzgerald, taking its title from a line of the rupert brooke poem tiare tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of postworld war i youth. There is a momentoh, just before the first kiss, a whispered wordsomething that makes it worth while.
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Share with your friends the best quotes from this side of paradise. Francis scott key fitzgerald september 24, 1896 december 21, 1940 was an american essayist, novelist, screenwriter, and shortstory writer, although he was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the jazz agea term which he coined. This side of paradise ebook written by francis scott fitzgerald. Scott fitzgerald s first novel features amory blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled, and snobbish young man from the midwest who attends princeton university to acquire a refined sense of the proper social values. Feb 09, 2016 this side of paradise ebook written by f. Scott fitzgerald s romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twentythree years old. Scott fitzgeralds first novel features amory blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled, and snobbish young man from the midwest who attends princeton university to acquire a refined sense of the proper social values. The first edition of the novel was published in 1920, and was written by f. Scott fitzgerald 1896 1940 this side of paradise is the debut novel by f. Scott fitzgerald s first novel, this side of paradise, became the novel that defined an era a by by f.
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