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    • This Side of Paradise is a 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a handsome middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of unfulfilling romances with young women. The … See more

    Plot summary

    Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, believes that he has a great destiny, but the precise nature of this destiny … See more

    Major characters

    Fitzgerald based most of the novel's characters on persons from his life, although he often created composites and imbued his female characters with his own personality traits and thoughts.
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    Originally publishedMarch 26, 1920
    AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
    GenreClassics · Fiction · Literature · Novels · American · Romance · Historical Fiction · 20th Century · Literary Fiction · Classic Literature
    CharactersAmory Blaine · Isabelle Borgé · Rosalind Connage · Monsignor Thayer Darcy · Beatrice Blaine · Alec Connage · Clara Page · Tom D'Invilliers · Kerry Holiday · Burne Holiday · Eleanor Savage · Dick Humbird · Cecilia Connage · Myra St. Clare

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    The Novel That Made F. Scott Fitzgerald Famous
    The Novel That Made F. Scott Fitzgerald Famous
    This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It tells the story of Amory Blaine, a handsome and spoiled young man who goes to Princeton and falls in love with various flappers.
    Background and composition

    Since childhood, F. Scott Fitzgerald aspired to become a famous novelist. "Three months before I was born," Scott later wrote, "my mother lost her other two children... I think I started then to be a writer." Whi… See more

    Reception

    Upon its publication, Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise caused a cultural sensation that sparked societal debate, and overnight, he became a national figure. He riveted the public's attention on the promiscuous activities of … See more

    Critical analysis

    For his first novel, Fitzgerald used as his literary templates H. G. Wells' 1909 realist work Tono-Bungay and Sir Compton Mackenzie's 1913 novel Sinister Street, which chronicles a college student's coming of age… See more

    Legacy and influence

    As an experimental novel, This Side of Paradise influenced the next generation of upcoming American writers, and critics such as John V. A. Weaver likened Fitzgerald's impact on post-war American literature to … See more

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