Bibliographic Details
Book Title: This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN-13: 9789365611786
Pages: 290
Edition: First Edition (2026)
Binding: Paperback
Genre: Literature & Fiction > Classics > American Literature > Modernist Fiction > Coming-of-Age Novel
Recommended Age Group: 14+ years; suitable for senior school, undergraduate, and general classic literature readers
Reading Difficulty: Moderate
Estimated Reading Time to Finish: 8–10 hours
Price: $13.99/- £12.99/- ₹325/-
Description
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a defining early twentieth-century American novel that captures the restless ambition, romantic longing, social uncertainty, and generational mood of youth after the First World War. Centred on Amory Blaine, a gifted, self-conscious, and often conflicted young man, the novel follows his journey through education, love, friendship, social aspiration, disappointment, and the search for identity. Through Amory’s experiences at Princeton and beyond, Fitzgerald presents a vivid portrait of youthful idealism colliding with class expectations, emotional instability, and the pressures of modern life.
The novel is especially important as a record of the emerging Jazz Age sensibility that Fitzgerald would later explore more fully in his major works. Its structure blends prose, verse, dialogue, letters, and dramatic passages, giving the book an experimental freshness that mirrors Amory’s shifting inner world. Themes of ambition, romance, wealth, disillusionment, self-invention, education, and moral uncertainty run throughout the narrative, making it a valuable text for readers interested in American modernism and coming-of-age fiction.
This edition is well suited for students of English literature, American fiction, modernist writing, and twentieth-century cultural history. It offers an engaging introduction to Fitzgerald’s literary concerns: charm and emptiness, privilege and insecurity, beauty and disappointment, youth and self-knowledge. This Side of Paradise remains a compelling classic for readers who want to understand the anxieties, desires, and contradictions of a generation standing between inherited tradition and modern possibility.
Key Features
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s influential debut novel.
- Explores youth, ambition, love, class, and identity.
- Features the memorable protagonist Amory Blaine.
- Important text in American modernist literature.
- Captures the mood leading into the Jazz Age.
- Useful for students of classics and American fiction.
- Blends prose, dialogue, verse, and dramatic form.
- Strong choice for classroom and literary discussion.
- Compact 290-page edition for focused reading.
- First Edition 2026 from AUMRAM Publications.
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Year: 2026
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