Back هذا الجانب من الجنة Arabic This Side of Paradise AST Diesseits vom Paradies German A este lado del paraíso Spanish این‌سوی بهشت Persian Maan päällä kuin taivaissa Finnish L'Envers du paradis (roman) French Դրախտի այս կողմը Armenian Di qua dal Paradiso Italian 楽園のこちら側 Japanese

This Side of Paradise

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This Side of Paradise
Cover of Fitzgerald's 1920 novel, This Side of Paradise, by illustrator W. E. Hill. The cover's title text is in white font, and the background is dark yellow. The cover depicts a haughty young woman wearing a white dress and holding a hand fan with large white feathers. Behind her, a dashing young man in a dark suit, white shirt, and black bow tie is leaning forward as if to whisper in her ear.
Dust jacket cover of the first edition
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover artistWilliam E. Hill
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreBildungsroman
PublishedMarch 26, 1920
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Followed byThe Beautiful and Damned (1922) 
TextThis Side of Paradise at Wikisource

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It 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.[1]

Within months of its publication, This Side of Paradise became a sensation in the United States, and reviewers hailed the work as an outstanding debut novel.[2] The book went through twelve printings and sold 49,075 copies.[3] It became popular among college students, and the national press depicted its 23-year-old author as the standard-bearer for "youth in revolt".[4] Overnight, F. Scott Fitzgerald became a household name.[5] His newfound fame enabled him to earn higher rates for his short stories,[6] and his improved financial prospects persuaded his fiancée Zelda Sayre to marry him one month later.[7]

With his debut novel, Fitzgerald became the first writer to turn the national spotlight upon the so-called Jazz Age generation.[8][9][10] In contrast to the older Lost Generation to which Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway belonged,[11] 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 effects.[12][13] Fitzgerald's novel riveted the nation's attention upon the leisure activities of this hedonistic younger generation and sparked a societal debate over their perceived immorality.[10][14]

As a consequence of this novel, Fitzgerald became known as "the outstanding aggressor in the little warfare which divided our middle classes in the twenties—warfare of moral emancipation against moral conceit, flaming youth against old guard".[15] When he died in 1940, social conservatives rejoiced over his death.[16] In a column for The New York World-Telegram, critic Westbrook Pegler wrote that Fitzgerald's death recalled "memories of a queer bunch of undisciplined and self-indulgent brats who were determined not to pull their weight in the boat and wanted the world to drop everything and sit down and bawl with them. A kick in the pants and a clout over the scalp were more like their needing."[17]

  1. ^ Tate 1998, p. 252; Shinn 1920, p. 8A; Brooke 1918, p. 15.
  2. ^ Mencken 1920, p. 140; Butcher 1920, p. 33; Buller 2005, p. 9.
  3. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 137.
  4. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 326.
  5. ^ Buller 2005, p. 9.
  6. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 89: "My story price had gone from $30 to $1,000. That's a small price to what was paid later in the Boom, but what it sounded like to me couldn't be exaggerated."
  7. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 99–102, 127–28.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Generational Consciousness was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wilson Paraphrasing Weaver was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b Butcher 1925, p. 11; Coghlan 1925, p. 11; Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald 2002, p. 184.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gray 1946 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jazz Age Generation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Fitzgerald 2004, pp. 6–7.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference Change in Social Mores was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 330–331.
  16. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 331–332.
  17. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 332.

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