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This Side of Paradise (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

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0140189769
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"Oh, I'll admit there's money in it eventually. Talent doesn't starve anymore. Even art gets enough to eat these days. Artists draw your magazine covers, write your advertisements, hash out rag-time for your theatres. By the great commercializing of printing you've found a harmless, polite occupation for every genius who might have carved out his own niche. But beware the artist who's an...more
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"This Side of Paradise" is distinctly the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, chiefly because it is an example of a talent in development. Following the path of Amory Blaine, a young Princeton undergraduate who is overwhelmed by the unbridled possibilities of life, and later pulled down by a world unwilling to acknowledge him. For the most part, it is an exuberant novel with a buzz that...more
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I felt this novel was absolutely breathtaking, the realism that is Amory Blaine is quite refreshing in a world of heroes and detectives. The most striking aspect is the internal conflict within our character and the analysis thereof. He, not unlike the layman, is in constant battle with the conceptions of honor and vanity and how he may find a place within the dichromatic definitions given by...more
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This novel is beautiful and gripping. The plot is not particularly strong, but the ideas in the book are very potent and so relevant that one can barely tell it was written nearly a century ago. The book is more than mere angst, it's the sort of existential grief you'd expect from Camus, but so much more satisfying. It is much more genuine than other novels dealing with similar issues and it is...more
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amory blaine is one of the most intriguing characters in american literature. he is a fony to some degree, and a rebel to another. he wants in, and at the same time, he wants nothing to do with. he loves the glitz and glamour, which is why i relate to him so much, becuase he really doesn't have any of it, he simply fakes it. he is smart, and shuns the ideas of those he knows are smarter than...more
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  • ISBN-10: 0679447237
  • ISBN-13: 9780679447238
  • ISBN-10: 0679600434
  • ISBN-13: 9780679600435
  • ISBN-10: 0684174685
  • ISBN-13: 9780684174686
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