This Side of Paradise
"We know the old adage about judging books by their covers, but how could you not when the covers are as lovely as these?"-Vogue (U.K.)The jacket design by Coralie Bickford-Smith reflects the elegance and glamour of the Art Deco period paired with the modern aesthetic of mechanical repetition....
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"We know the old adage about judging books by their covers, but how could you not when the covers are as lovely as these?"-Vogue (U.K.)The jacket design by Coralie Bickford-Smith reflects the elegance and glamour of the Art Deco period paired with the modern aesthetic of mechanical repetition. Each jacket comes with a detachable bookmark.Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise. The story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' and wanting money and success more than anything else.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780141194097 (014119409X)
ASIN: 014119409X
Publish date: 2010-11-04
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 267
Edition language: English
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an intriguing book. I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars. "This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking...
IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of F. Scott Fitzgerald--This Side of ParadiseExplanatory Notes
Publicado originalmente: El Extraño Gato del Cuento This Side of Paradise se me hizo un libro interesante el cual me falló bastante con el final. Si bien la sinopsis ya nos dice que este libro a largo de los años se ha tomado como una especie de biografía del escritor, yo no lo quise tomar así ¿Po...
Blog Stories Review: http://storiesbooksandmovies.blogspot.it/2014/04/di-qua-del-paradiso-francis-scott.htmlIn questo primo romanzo dell'autore de Il Grande Gatsby vi è una forte componente autobiografica. Il protagonista, infatti, viene immaginato come un coscritto dello stesso Fitzgerald.Il giovan...
Fitzgerald is one of my favorite writers and I love how this story could easily be as relevant to young college students today trying to find their place in the world as it was in his time.