This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics) - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199546215 ISBN 13 : 9780199546213

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

'to write it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life' F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. At Princeton he becomes a literary aesthete and makes friends with other aspiring writers and young women with whom he falls in love. Youthful exuberance and immaturity give way to disillusion and disappointment as Amory confronts the realities of life. A thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald's own Princeton years, the novel's frank description of Amory's successive love affairs shocked and delighted its first readers, and the book was an immediate success. Brilliant and original in style and structure, it was a spectacular launching for Fitzgerald's career, and instantly stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age. Published On: 2011-04-25

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Maryland. He has published widely on F. Scott Fitzgerald, including an edition of the love letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, St Martin's Press/ Bloomsbury 2002) and has been President of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society since 1990. His most recent book is The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder (HarperCollins, 2008)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199546215
• ISBN 13: 9780199546213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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