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The Last of the Belles and Other Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
Inspired by Fitzgerald's own courtship of his future wife Zelda, 'The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A wistful and melancholy explo ...Show more
The Love Boat and Other Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remai ...Show more
The Love of the Last Tycoon & the Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction
The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe ...Show more
The Pat Hobby Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivi ...Show more
This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classics
'I sure am up in the air. I know I'm not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn't' On the eve of a dance at the Greenwich County Club, Amory Blaine's life reaches its peak. He's at Princeton. He's handsome. He looks good in a dinner jacket. And, most importantly, a beautiful girl loves him ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in lo ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, thatmade him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byronand a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty throughthe death of two elder brothers, su ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Philip McGowan (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Published in 1920, This Side of Paradise put F. Scott Fitzgerald in the literary spotlight. It was Fitzgerald's first novel, written when he was 23, but it quickly became a symbol for the restlessness and glittering excesses of the Roaring Twenties. Amory Blaine, handsome and rich, has been raised with ...Show more