This side of paradise /
F. Scott Fitzgerald ; preface and notes by James L. W. West III and Lynn Setzer.
- Scribner hardcover edition.
- xiv, 324 pages ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographic references and notes.
Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.--
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Debutantes--Fiction. Rich people--Fiction. College students--Fiction. Classism--Fiction. Rejection (Psychology)--Fiction. Bildungsromans.