Currently (Re)Reading: This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise, by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered", Book One, Chapter 1.
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke 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. [The novel famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage due to its success.]

The novel is broken up into parts: "Book One: The Romantic Egotist", "Interlude", and "Book Two: The Education of a Personage". One of my favorite female Fitzgerald charcters, Eleanor Savage, is from this novel!

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Happy Reading!! xx