This Side of Paradise

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This Side of Paradise is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel, a coming-of-age story that explores youth, love, and disillusionment in early 20th-century American high society.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf debut novel
novel
adaptation This Side of Paradise self-linksurface differs
surface form: This Side of Paradise (television adaptation)
author F. Scott Fitzgerald
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre coming-of-age novel
romantic novel
social novel
hasISBN 978-0-7432-7356-5
hasLiteraryForm prose
verse passages
hasPart letters
poems
prose narrative
hasSubject Princeton University
World War I
moral development
romantic relationships
social climbing
includedIn American literature canon
influenced F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary reputation
literaryMovement Jazz Age literature
Modernism
mainCharacter Amory Blaine
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableCharacter Beatrice Blaine
Rosalind Connage
notableFor depiction of the Jazz Age generation
portrayal of American high society
originalLanguage English
pageCount 305
placeOfPublication New York City
precededBy The Romantic Egotist (unpublished earlier version)
publicationDate 1920-03-26
publicationYear 1920
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons NERFINISHED
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingPeriod early 20th century
theme class and social status
disillusionment
identity
love
post–World War I society
youth
timeInNarrative World War I era
post–World War I era
pre–World War I era

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This Side of Paradise adaptation This Side of Paradise self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: This Side of Paradise (television adaptation)
Flappers and Philosophers follows This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald notableWork This Side of Paradise
Charles Scribner's Sons notableWorkPublished This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned precededBy This Side of Paradise