This Side of Paradise - Brossura

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1439198985 ISBN 13: 9781439198988

Casa editrice: Pocket Classics, 2010

Riassunto

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Published when he was twenty-three years old, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise, established him as the golden boy of the dawning Jazz Age. As a chronicle of youth, no other literary work remains as revealing—or as bitingly relevant.

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· Detailed explanatory notes

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· A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

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• Editore: Pocket Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439198985
• ISBN 13: 9781439198988
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 375