This Side of Paradise (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, Midwest, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Upper classes, Philadelphia, Minnesota
- Locales: New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Maryland, Minneapolis, MN, New Jersey, Minnesota
This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, made him an enormously successful popular author when he was only twenty-three years old. The combination of romanticism and realism, mingled with a fresh and—for the time—sometimes startling depiction of college life, caught the attention of the reading public and made the novel representative of an entire generation.
This Side of Paradise is loose and episodic, a collection of vivid scenes which do not fuse into a well-structured novel. It is divided into two sections: “The Romantic Egotist” (the title of...
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