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This Side of Paradise

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141185576

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 224g

  • RRP: £9.99

This Side of Paradise

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141185576

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 224g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

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