This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 1, Part 1

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 1, Part 1

Title: This Side of Paradise

Overview: This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of romances with flappers. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti. Within months of its publication, This Side of Paradise became a cultural sensation in the United States, and reviewers hailed the work as the best novel of the decade. The book went through twelve printings and sold 49,075 copies. The novel became especially popular among college students, and the national press depicted its boyish author as the standard-bearer for "youth in revolt". Overnight, the novel's author F. Scott Fitzgerald became a household name. Fitzgerald's newfound fame enabled him to earn much higher rates for his short stories, and his increased financial prospects persuaded his reluctant fiancée Zelda Sayre to marry him. With his debut novel, Fitzgerald became the first writer to turn the national spotlight upon the so-called Jazz Age generation. In contrast to the older Lost Generation to which Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway belonged, the Jazz Age generation were those younger Americans who had been adolescents during World War I and were largely untouched by the conflict's psychological and material horrors. Fitzgerald's novel riveted the nation's attention upon the leisure activities of their sons and daughters and sparked a societal debate over the younger generation's perceived immorality. As a consequence of this novel, Fitzgerald became forever regarded as "the outstanding aggressor in the little warfare which divided our middle classes into the twenties—warfare of moral emancipation against moral conceit, flaming youth against old guard". When he died in 1940, social conservatives rejoiced over his death.

Published: 1920

Series: Novels #1

List: Great American Novel Collection

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genre: General Fiction, Bildungsroman

Episode: This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 1, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 5:08:31

Book: 1

Length Book: 9:51:54

Episodes: 1 - 10 of 20

Successor: The Beautiful and Damned

Narrator: Mark F. Smith

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: adventure, hero, struggle, camaraderie, danger, morality, selflessness, moral integrity, character,  love, forgiveness, authority, rules, freedom, romance, exploration, FScottFitzgerald

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