This side of paradise / Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

World War I had accelerated the change from the Victorian Era to "modernism" in America and Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of Amory Blaine from his school years to the start of an uncertain career in New York, filled with parties and a new morality.

Presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's bildungsroman about a handsome, wealthy Princeton student named Amory Blaine, whose experiences with love, war, and poverty lead him to self-realization; and includes a contextual introduction, critical excerpts spanning 1919 through 1988, and commentary on the novel by Fitzgerald himself.