This Side of Paradise

Name: This Side of Paradise
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781802562958

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 02/02/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise follows Amory Blaine's coming-of-age journey through prep school, Princeton, and early adulthood. He grapples with identity, love, and ambition, amidst the shifting social landscape of the Jazz Age. Amory experiences both romantic triumphs and heartbreaks, ultimately searching for meaning and purpose beyond superficial pursuits. The novel captures the restless energy and disillusionment of a generation, defining the spirit of the era.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Always on January 14, 2022

I wanted to like this book because it has all the trappings of books I tend to enjoy, including gradual disillusionment with life and a character who I relate to, i.e. bad work ethic and excessive emotional reactions. I think the issue is I can't stand when people are condescending or care about sta......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 24, 2022

[Revised, shelves and pictures added, spoilers hidden 7/24/2022] This was Fitzgerald’s first novel, published when he was 23. So it’s a coming-of-age novel and semi-autobiographical. Our main character, Amory, is presented to us as a not-very-likable egotistical young god. “…he wondered how people co......more

Goodreads review by Baba on February 03, 2022

Amory Blaine, a mid-Westerner and middle class, begin what feels like the start of the rest of his life, in the place he feels he is meant to be, and on his arrival at Princeton (university) he feels at his life's greatest moment. This is his story, via a mix of narrators, styles, even genres, the s......more

Goodreads review by Jared on December 30, 2012

The Great Gatsby is colossal. It's one of those books from your high school reading list that you probably still like. I do. I love Gatsby. When I saw the Baz Luhrman movie was coming out I remembered that I once promised myself I would read all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels. This Side of Paradise......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on April 29, 2015

An Apprentice Work, With Flashes Of Genius This Side Of Paradise was Fitzgerald’s first novel, the one that made him, at age 23, a literary star, the unofficial chronicler of the flapper era. It was such a success that his ex-girlfriend, Zelda Sayre, agreed to marry him. And we know how that turned o......more