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A young Midwesterner travels east to attend Princeton University, where he shows promise as a student and writer. In love with Isabelle Borgé, Amory Blaine hones his craft writing letters and poems to her. When disillusionment sets in, he leaves Princeton to fight in the First World War.
This Side of Paradise is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was a celebrated author of novels and short stories whose work is synonymous with the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties of the early twentiethth century. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled “Lost Generation,” Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
Summary
Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, is convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future. The reader follows Amory as he falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, a wealthy young debutante; a cruel and narcissistic flapper named Rosalind Connage; and Eleanor, a reckless eighteen-year-old atheist.
An autobiographical novel and a portrait of the dawning Jazz Age, This Side of Paradise launched F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career and turned him into an overnight literary sensation.
