This Side Of Paradise (Legend Classics) Av F. Scott Fitzgerald

<b><i>“I'm not sentimental—I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”</i></b></p><p>From one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, <i>This Side of Paradise</i> was rumoured to have helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda's hand in marriage.</b><p>Amory Blaine is an ambitious, aspiring young writer, haunted by intellectual curiosity, doomed relationships, adolescence, and the danger of seeking status in the early-twentieth century.</p><p>This is vintage Fitzgerald, a perfect example of his ability to capture a particular period of American history.</p><p>With this modern edition, you can dive into the back catalogue of a writer synonymous with both the flamboyant Jazz Age and the lost generation of 1920s America.</p><hr><p>The <i>Legend Classics</i> series:<br/>Around the World in Eighty Days<br/>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<br/>The Importance of Being Earnest<br/>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland<br/>The Metamorphosis<br/>The Railway Children<br/>The Hound of the Baskervilles<br/>Frankenstein<br/>Wuthering Heights<br/>Three Men in a Boat<br/>The Time Machine<br/>Little Women<br/>Anne of Green Gables<br/>The Jungle Book<br/>The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories<br/>Dracula<br/>A Study in Scarlet<br/>Leaves of Grass<br/>The Secret Garden<br/>The War of the Worlds<br/>A Christmas Carol<br/>Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<br/>Heart of Darkness<br/>The Scarlet Letter<br/>This Side of Paradise<br/>Oliver Twist<br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/>Treasure Island<br/>The Turn of the Screw<br/>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br/>Emma<br/>The Trial<br/>A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe<br/>Grimm Fairy Tales<br/>The Awakening<br/>Mrs Dalloway<br/>Gulliver’s Travels<br/>The Castle of Otranto<br/>Silas Marner<br/>Hard Times</p>