This Side of Paradise (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

<b>It bears the impress it seems to me of genius. It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood.</b> -<em>Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune</em><br/><em>THIS SIDE OF PARADISE</em> is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920 and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.<br/><br/>The novel centers on Amory Blaine a young Midwesterner who convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future attends boarding school and later Princeton University. He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers Monsignor Darcy. While at Princeton he goes back to Minneapolis where he re-encounters Isabelle Borgé a young lady whom he met as a little boy and starts a romantic relationship with her at Princeton he repeatedly writes ever more flowery poems but they become disenchanted with each after meeting again at his prom . . . (more on: www.wisehouse-classics.com)