This Side of Paradise

Informationen zum Autor Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age . His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned , The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940. Klappentext Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world. Zusammenfassung Amory Blaine! intent on rebelling against his staid! Midwestern upbringing! longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment! he progresses through a series of relationships! until he is cast out into the real world.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F.Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Patrick O'Donnell (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.01.2001
• EAN: 9780141185576
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118557-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Narrative theme: Coming of age, United States of America, USA, c 1920 to c 1929, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary