This Side of Paradise

The first novel of Fitzgerald s celebrated career, This Side of Paradise tells the story of Armory Blaine, a Princeton University student from the Midwest. Armory s experiences of love, loss, and rejection introduce him and the reader to the world of post-war adolescence a world where love is subjugated to status-seeking and social advancement. Fitzgerald s critical and commercial success is largely due to this groundbreaking debut novel.

Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920.