This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald was the opening statement of his literary career. Originally published in 1920, the novel captures the pace and feel of the striking postwar decade that would follow in America. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald both famous and infamous: famous for the elegant exuberance of his writings and infamous for the errors (of spelling, facts, grammar, and chronology) that peppered his text.

This new edition, prepared with the latest techniques in modern scholarly editing, creates an accurate, fully annotated text based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript.

The volume includes a detailed account of the novel's creative and textual history; facsimiles of early drafts; complete textual apparatus; and a chronology of composition and publication. Explanatory notes gloss Fitzgerald's historical and current references. Freeing the novel from its history of textual errors, the current edition offers the reading public a This Side of Paradise that is more precise and accessible than ever.

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This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first witty romantic novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, pleased, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical acclaim and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early Jazz Age classic, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a moving portrait of the "Lost Generation."