This Side of Paradise
Book Details
| Title: | This Side of Paradise | ||||||||
| Author: |
| ||||||||
| Published: | 1920 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Charles Scribner's Sons | ||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, literature | ||||||||
| Description: | This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. . . Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke’s 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.—Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.] |
||||||||
| Downloads: | 1,126 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 175  |
Author Bio for Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (24 September, 1896—21 December, 1940) born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a short story writer and novelist. He is considered one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous posthumous success of his third book, The Great Gatsby.
He began his writing career at age 13 when he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper at St. Paul (Minn.) Academy. At Princeton, he firmly dedicated himself to honing his craft as a writer, writing scripts for Princeton’s famous Triangle Club musicals as well as frequent articles for the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and stories for the Nassau Literary Magazine. Fitzgerald’s writing came at the expense of his coursework. He was placed on academic probation, and, in 1917, he dropped out of school to join the Army. The next three years, he worked a few months in advertising and then quit to write full-time in St. Paul. After several rejections and rewrites of his first novel, it was accepted and...
Available Formats
| FILE TYPE | LINK | ||
| UTF-8 text | 20190821.txt | ||
| HTML | 20190821.html | ||
| Epub | 20190821.epub | If you cannot open a .mobi file on your mobile device, please use .epub with an appropriate eReader. | |
| Mobi/Kindle | 20190821.mobi | | Not all Kindles or Kindle apps open all .mobi files. |
| PDF (tablet) | 20190821-a5.pdf | ||
| HTML Zip | 20190821-h.zip |
Kindle Direct (New, Experimental)
Send this book direct to your kindle via email. We need your Send-to-Kindle Email address, which can be found by looking in your Kindle device’s Settings page. All kindle email addresses will end in @kindle.com. Note you must add our email server’s address, fadedpage@fadedpage.com, to your Amazon account’s Approved E-mail list. This list may be found on your Amazon account: Your Account→ Manage Your Content and Devices→ Preferences→ Personal Document Settings→ Approved Personal Document E-mail List→ Add a new approved e-mail address.
This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it.
Here at FadedPage and our companion site Distributed Proofreaders Canada, we pride ourselves on producing the best ebooks you can find. Please tell us about any errors you have found in this book, or in the information on this page about this book.