This is the story of Amory Blaine---a handsome, wealthy, and spoiled young Princeton student. Closely mirroring Fitzgerald's own experiences at school and abroad, Blaine’s journey from prep school to college to the First Worm War is the story of "the lost generation." Cynical and world-weary at the age of thirty, Blaine is the symbol of what Fitzgerald described as " a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."

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This Side of Paradise

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F. Scott Fitzgerald on

This Side of Paradise

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