This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Barnes & Noble Classics

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This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de F. Scott Fitzgerald (auteur), Sharon G. Carson (introduction), Sharon G. Carson (introduction et notes)
Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics
juin 2009

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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 features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
  • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.
 
If the “Roaring Twenties” are remembered as the era of“flaming youth,” it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best-seller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post-war America. It traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton to the start of an uncertain career in New York City.

Alternately self-confident and self-effacing, torn between ambition and idleness, the self-absorbed, immature Amory yearns to run with Princeton’s rich, fast crowd and become one of the “gods” of the campus. Hopelessly romantic, he learns about love and sex from a series of beautiful young “flappers,” women who leave him both exhilarated and devastated. Fitzgerald describes it all in intensely lyrical prose that fills the novel with a heartbreaking sense of longing, as Amory comes to understand that the sweet-scented springtime of his life is fragile and fleeting, disappearing into memory even as he reaches for it.
 
Sharon G. Carson is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Kent State University, where she has taught for thirty-five years. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on modern and contemporary fiction.

Auteur

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (auteur)

    Romancier et nouvelliste américain, Francis Scott Fitzgerald est né à Saint-Paul (Minnesota) le 24 septembre 1896. En 1920, il épouse il épouse Zelda Sayrepuis mène avec elle une vide mondaine brillante, exhibitionniste, fragile et fondamentalement instable. lors d'un séjour sur la côte d'Azur, il rédige son roman le plus connu, Gatsby le Magnifique, qui sera publié en 1925. Après l'échec de "Tendre est la nuit", il sombre dans la maladie et l'alcoolisme. Une attaque cardiaque le terrasse à Hollywood le 21 décembre 1940.

Auteur(s) : F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Caractéristiques

Éditeur : Barnes & Noble Classics

Auteur(s) : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publication : 1 juin 2009

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 1,33 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781411433274

EAN13 (papier) : 9781593082437

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