If the 'Roaring Twenties' are remembered as the era of 'flaming
youth', it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. This book
traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school
through Princeton to the start of an uncertain career in New York
City, and captures the spirit of the roaring twenties. No writer
portrayed America's Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott
Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the
prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle
entitlement, and endless alcohol-fuelled dance parties at ritzy
country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as
reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of
observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories
that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published
nearly a century ago. This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works
features two full-length novels-This Side of Paradise and The
Beautiful and Damned-and 19 short stories, including the classics
'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', and 'The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button'. Written as only they could be by
an insider to the society that they portray, the 21 works collected
in this volume capture the precarious splendor and doomed glory of
that opulent era that their author called the Jazz Age.
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