 |
|
 |
|
This Side of Paradise
(Paperback, 1996)
Other Editions...
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0486289990
ISBN-13: 9780486289991
Apr 1996
Publisher: Dover Pubns
213 pages
Dover Thrift Editions Series
Language: English |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In general items shipped via Media Mail should arrive in 2-9 days (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) from the time of shipping
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
Details
Synopsis
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation, was written while he was in the army, extensively revised, and finally published in 1920 when he was only 23 years old. The young "romantic egoist" Amory Blaine--vain, shallow, and self-absorbed--whose progress from prep school to Princeton frequently parallels Fitzgerald's own life, is the quintessential youth of the postwar "Lost Generation." Fitzgerald's unsparing portrait of a young man who takes himself far too seriously makes THIS SIDE OF PARADISE one of his most endearing and entertaining books. Upon its publication, Fitzgerald became an instant literary superstar, and this early fame--and his inability to mature--helped bring about the downfall, only 20 years later, of a major American writer.
| Details | | Series: | Dover Thrift Editions Series |
| Size | | Length: | 213 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopædia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory."
Industry Reviews
"'This Side of Paradise' commits almost every sin that a novel can possible commit....But it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life."
Jacket flap - Edmund Wilson
"This is a bad book about good things."
to H. L. Mencken - F. Scott Fitzgerald (03/20/1930)
"'This Side of Paradise' is a little slice carved out of real life, running over with youth and jazz and virile American humor--everything in short that is dear to a Princeton man (Mr. Fitzgerald himself) or a Yale man, or a Harvard man, or just any kind of man."
|
|
|
|
Other Editions
|
Hardcover, 1996 - $9.50 Save 90%
Paperback, 1996 - $0.97 Save 91%
Hardcover, 1978 - $1.75 Save 93%
Paperback, 1999 - $1.80 Save 91%
Paperback, 1996 - $0.75 Save 84%
Paperback, 1995 - $0.75 Save 92%
Hardcover, 1996 - $0.98 Save 96%
Paperback, 1982 - $0.75 Save 89%
Paperback, 1998 - $0.75 Save 94%
Hardcover, 1996 - $11.12 Save 28%
Paperback, 1995 - $0.75 Save 86%
Hardcover, 1995 - $33.60
Paperback, 1996 - $0.75 Save 92%
Hardcover, 1998 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 1920 - $0.99 Save 96%
Hardcover, 1995 - $19.95 Save 28%
Hardcover, 1996 - $5.49 Save 77%
Paperback, 1996 - $0.75 Save 87%
Hardcover, 1996 - $1.00 Save 94%
Paperback, 2001 - $0.75 Save 87%
Paperback, 1920 - $0.75 Save 94%
Hardcover, 1990 - $11.95 Save 94%
Paperback, 1996 - $1.96 Save 67%
Hardcover, 1996 - $15.00 Save 40%
Audio, 1997 - $12.95 Save 27%
Audio, 1997 - $39.60 Save 30%
Audio, 1993 - $9.99 Save 84%
Audio, 1996 - $34.17 Save 40%
Paperback, 2001 - $0.75 Save 93%
Paperback, 2004 - $0.75 Save 94%
Hardcover, 1996 - $26.19 Save 52%
Hardcover, 1999 - $3.24 Save 83%
Hardcover, 2003 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 2002 - $2.00 Save 97%
Paperback, 2002 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Book, 1996 - $0.75
Hardcover, 1996 - $0.75
Paperback, 2004 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 2005 - $3.00 Save 49%
Paperback, 2004 - $18.95 Save 34%
Audio, 1995 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 2005 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 2006 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 2006 - $0.75 Save 89%
Audio, 2006 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 2006 - $12.17 Save 65%
Audio, 2006 - $42.41 Save 54%
Audio, 2006 - $23.55 Save 5%
Paperback, 2005 - $0.75 Save 89%
Hardcover, 2004 - $25.00 Save 43%
|
|
|
|
Similar Items on eBay
|
|
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
All rights reserved.
