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This Side of Paradise
Library of Congress
I simply state that I’m a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation—with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.
—“The Egotist Becomes a Personage
F. Scott
Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned—the post–World War I “lost generation.” Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel was an overnight success and shot Fitzgerald to instant stardom as dauphin of the Jazz Age.

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Contents

NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, 1920
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999

…Well this side of Paradise!…
There’s little comfort in the wise.—Rupert Brooke.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.—Oscar Wilde.

To SIGOURNEY FAY

BOOK ONE: The Romantic Egotist
1. AMORY, SON OF BEATRICE
2. SPIRES AND GARGOYLES
3. THE EGOTIST CONSIDERS
4. NARCISSUS OFF DUTY
[INTERLUDE: MAY, 1917–FEBRUARY, 1919.]
BOOK TWO: The Education of a Personage
1. THE DÉBUTANTE
2. EXPERIMENTS IN CONVALESCENCE
3. YOUNG IRONY
4. THE SUPERCILIOUS SACRIFICE
5. THE EGOTIST BECOMES A PERSONAGE