This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise is the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, it catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine's adolescence and undergraduate days at Princeton, This Side of Paradise captures the essence of an American generation struggling to define itself in the aftermath of World War I and the destruction of "the old order." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains relevant even today.