The Beautiful and Damned | Related Titles
All of Fitzgerald's fiction deals with the ambitions, illusions, and disappointments of people who were molded by the American dream and the enormous prosperity generated by American entrepreneurship at the turn of the twentieth century. The novel that closely parallels the characters and their destinies is This Side of Paradise (1920), in which the young men and women undertake rites of passage that test their perception of reality.
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