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This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book 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. Within months of its publication, This Side of Paradise became a cultural sensation in the United States, and reviewers hailed the work as the best novel of the decade.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book 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. Within months of its publication, This Side of Paradise became a cultural sensation in the United States, and reviewers hailed the work as the best novel of the decade.
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Autorenporträt
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) war einer der größten amerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Jahrhunderts. Am bekanntesten ist er für seinen Roman Der große Gatsby, in dem er die Exzesse und die Desillusionierung des Jazz-Zeitalters einfing. Seine brillante Prosa, sein scharfer sozialer Kommentar und seine Erforschung des amerikanischen Traums haben ihn zu einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der amerikanischen Literatur gemacht. Neben dem Großen Gatsby gehören zu seinen bekanntesten Werken Zärtlich ist die Nacht und Diesseits des Paradieses.