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This Side of Paradise
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This Side of Paradise (1920) (edit title/settings)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) (edit contributors)

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This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald... read more

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  • “It was always the becoming that he dreamed of, never the being. This, too, was quite characteristic of young Amory.”
  • “From the moment he realized this Amory resented social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong.”
  • “It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
    Amory Blaine
  • “If we can do the next thing, and have an hour a day to think in, we can accomplish marvels.”
    Monsignor Darcy
  • “Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself.”
    Monsignor Darcy
  • “You lack judgment—the judgment to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance.”
    Monsignor Darcy
  • “I suppose all great happiness is a little sad.”
  • “Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour,To think of things that are well outworn;Of fruitless husk and fugitive flower,The dream foregone and the deed foreborne?”
  • “There are certain things which are human nature, which always have been and always will be, which can't be changed.”

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  • Daily Princetonian: Princeton's daily student newspaper.
  • Triangle Club: A renown student musical theatre group.
  • Skull and Bones: An exclusive and secretive society at Yale.
  • Lafayette Escadrille: The unit to which Kerry Burne joined to fight in WWI.
  • Cottage Club: One of the many exclusive social clubs at Princeton.
  • 171st Infantry: The unit to which Amory is assigned as a 2nd Lieutenant upon joining the army.
  • The New Democracy: Considered one of the country's most brilliant weekly publications. Tom d'Invilliers writes for it after college.

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Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 13 of 37 in First Edition Library. (publisher edition list)
This is book 184 of 213 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (publisher edition list)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: United States
Publication Date: March 26, 1920
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 249

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  • Library of Congress: PZ3.F5754 Th4 PS3511.I9
  • Dewey: 813.52

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love

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