This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920 when Fitzgerald was just twenty-three, it is the story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student whose journey from prep school to college to the First World War is a prescient account of what Gertrude Stein would later call the Lost Generation. Fitzgerald memorably describes Amory and his contemporaries as "a new generation ... grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." An exuberant pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling, virtuosic chronicle of youth remains recognizably relevant today.Fitzgerald, F. Scott is the author of 'This Side of Paradise', published 2005 under ISBN 9780345481221 and ISBN 0345481224.