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This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned (Paperback)
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This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned (Paperback)
Series: Wordsworth Classics
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Loot Price R167
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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of
Reading. This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the
only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to
adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton
University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his
academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young
women are fatally damaged by the collapse of his family's fortune,
and the novel ends with him poised to face the challenge of making
his own way in the world. Composed in an unconventional narrative
mode, the novel is a rich fusion of satiric and romance idioms, and
found a captivated audience on its publication in 1920. It made
Fitzgerald rich and famous overnight. The Beautiful and Damned is a
bleaker version of the corrosive power of wealth and its
privileges, one of Fitzgerald's abiding subjects. Anthony Patch, is
heir to a huge fortune, whose marriage to the beautiful and
indolent Gloria is increasingly shadowed by Anthony's fall into
alcoholism. Though he wins a lawsuit to gain his inheritance of
millions of dollars, it is a pyrrhic victory, for he is now a
physically and morally broken man.
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