This Side of Paradise.

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Item Number: 7266

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.

First edition of the author’s classic first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and a chip to the front panel with some restoration. One of the most difficult of all Fitzgerald’s works to locate in the original dust jacket.

The novel's hero, Amory Blaine, is a handsome, spoiled young man who attends Princeton, becomes involved in literary activities and has several ill-fated romances. A portrait of the Lost Generation, the novel addresses Fitzgerald's later theme of love distorted by social climbing and greed" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature). Fitzgerald was still at university when he submitted the manuscript, then titled The Romantic Egoist, to Charles Scribner, whom he had known at Princeton. It was published on 26 March 1920, was an immediate success, and launched Fitzgerald's literary career.