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Notes
Running Time: 9 hours 49 minutes
Read by: Mark F. Smith
Book Coordinator: Mark F. Smith
Meta Coordinator: Laura Caldwell
Proof Listener: Ans Wink
Artwork
Cover: Illustration from the first edition dustcover of This Side of Paradise (1920).
DVD Inset: Photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald c. 1921 in "The World's Work" (June 1921 issue).
DVD Insert background image: Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant, Shadowland magazine (1921).
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This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel broke the wave of youthful energy pent-up and ready to explode in the United States after the First World War. Periods of High Romanticism tend to flourish in the wake of wars, and the character of that exuberant flowering of the self depends in large measure on whether the war was won or lost. In the 20’s America was victorious and wealthy and confident and young, and This Side of Paradise focuses its considerable energy and style on the victorious, the wealthy, the confident and the young. The story, a rewrite of Fitzgerald’s first manuscript with the working title, The Romantic Egoist, explores the life of Amory Blaine, Princeton University student, a literary young man in love with beauty and the women with family money and last names who descend to conquer those handsome, talented young men who, in their turn, aspire to lives above themselves on America’s invisible though very real class system. The tragedy inherent in Amory Blaine’s quest is the illusion of ascent. His initially innocent and well-intentioned efforts at love are damaged by the underside of his worldly ambitions: greed and the acquisition of social superiority. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936387 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923612 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Year | 1920 |
Recording | |
Read by | Mark F. Smith |
Length | 9 hours 49 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
This Side of Paradise
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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