This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

Dust jacket cover of first edition
Author	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover artist	W. E. Hill
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	March 26, 1920
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	305 pp (first edition hardcover)
ISBN	9781593082437 (Barnes & Noble paperback)
Followed by	The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

This Side of Paradise is the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was first sold in 1920.

Plot Summary

Amory Blaine leaves his mother and friend behind to go to a good American university. At university he falls in love with a girl called Isabelle, but she is not interested in Amory. Amory then goes to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the war, he falls in love with Rosalind. Because Amory is poor, Rosalind is not interested in him and decides to marry someone else. Amory then learns that his friend from home has died.

References

• Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph (2002), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 978-1-57003-455-8
• Prigozy, Ruth, ed. (2002), The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-62447-3

Other websites

Wikisource has original writing related to this article:

This Side of Paradise

• This Side of Paradise at Project Gutenberg
• This Side of Paradise
• alternate. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Scanned book from Internet Archive.
• This Side of Paradise Map Archived 2009-08-11 at the Wayback Machine