This Side of Paradise (1920) is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published at the very beginning of Fitzgeralds career as a leading writer of American fiction, This Side of Paradise was a resounding critical and commercial success, allowing him to marry his young love Zelda Sayre. The novel is a semiautobiographical study of youthful ambition, disillusioned romance, and a generation scarred by war. Amory Blaine is a young man from the Midwest with great ambitions and unfocused talent. He attends Princeton University, where he excels as a student and writer while keeping up a romantic correspondence with Isabelle Borge, a girl from his youth. Greatly anticipating her arrival in Princeton, Blaine reunites with her one last time for a university prom, where he realizes whatever love they once shared has now been lost. Despairing, Blaine enlists in the army and is sent overseas to fight in the First World War. When he returns, he takes up a position as a copywriter at a New York City advertising agency, falls for the beautiful debutante Rosalind Connage, a quickly finds himself spiraling into selfdoubt and out of control. This Side of Paradise is a tragic story of unrealized potential in a young man willing to meet the world headon without ever looking at himself. Upon publication, Fitzgeralds debut marked the beginning of a promising career as one of twentieth century Americas finest writers of fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,...

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