Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Princeton University, where he began writing what would become his first novel, This Side of Paradise. He left Princeton to join the army during World War I, though the war ended shortly after his enlistment. This Side of Paradise, published in 1920, was a critical and financial success and was followed the same year by his first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers, followed byTales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Fitzgerald went on to publish three more novels—The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night—and many more stories. He died in 1940, leaving his last novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, unfinished.
“As nearly perfect as such a work could be . . . The glorious
spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale.
Amory, the romantic egotist, is essentially American.” –The New
York Times
“[A] bravura display of literary promise . . . Fitzgerald’s prose
is capable of soaring like a violin, and of moving his readers with
understated husky notes as well as with notes of piercing purity .
. . Fitzgerald knew that glamour was bound to fail, that there is
an ineradicable human instinct for it which is utterly mistaken.”
–from the Introduction by Craig Raine
Fitzgerald is having a big year (see News, LJ, November 1, p. 16). Not only were three scholarly titles published to celebrate his recent centenary (LJ 9/1/96), but this, his first novel, has now entered into public domain. Publishers are quick to take advantage of the opportunity, and two other editions of This Side have already appeared (Classic Returns, LJ 4/15/96). Though the most no-frills of the bunch, this version is also by far the cheapest.
"As nearly perfect as such a work could be . . . The glorious
spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale.
Amory, the romantic egotist, is essentially American." -The New
York Times
"[A] bravura display of literary promise . . . Fitzgerald's prose
is capable of soaring like a violin, and of moving his readers with
understated husky notes as well as with notes of piercing purity .
. . Fitzgerald knew that glamour was bound to fail, that there is
an ineradicable human instinct for it which is utterly mistaken."
-from the Introduction by Craig Raine
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