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Its protagonist amory blaine is an attractive student at princeton university who dabbles in literature. Scott fitzgeralds first novel features amory blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled, and snobbish young man from the midwest who attends princeton university to acquire a refined sense of the proper social values. This side of paradise this side of paradise by f scott. He marries the ravishingly beautiful gloria, and together they plan for the day that anthony receives his inheritance. Scott fitzgerald s romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twentythree years old. Fitzgerald s first novel, reprinted in the handsome everymans library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of amory. The couple became an icon of the excesses of the jazz age. The first edition of the novel was published in 1920, and was written by f. Collection gutenberg contributor project gutenberg language english. Mar 23, 2020 this side of paradise is published, immediately launching 23yearold f.
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