This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In the summer of 1919, after encouraging him to perform two revisions, Scribner's finally signed a contract with the unknown author F. Scott Fitzgerald to publish his first novel. Fitzgerald sold his first major short stories while waiting for the printing, but This Side of Paradise was his major debut, an immediate success that marked both the dawn of the Jazz Age and the dawn of Fitzgerald's turbulent career. An insider's satire of the...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Biographies (6)

F . Scott Fitzgerald

6,442 words, approx. 22 pages

F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the afternoon of December 21, 1940, suffering a fatal heart attack as he was finishing a chocolate bar--one of his placebos for the alcohol that had ravaged both his talent... Read more

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

1,285 words, approx. 5 pages

The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic ... Read more

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

12,215 words, approx. 41 pages

An air of transience pervades the biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and slips into their writing. This lack of permanence is a key to understanding their relationship with ... Read more

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

9,361 words, approx. 32 pages

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, ... Read more

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

12,326 words, approx. 42 pages

Although for the general reader F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fame rests primarily on one novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), his creative life, from youth to early death, found full expression in some 160 shor... Read more

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

11,000 words, approx. 37 pages

Biography EssayF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the song... Read more

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This Side of Paradise, An American Classic

1,169 words, approx. 4 pages

The mere transition from childhood to adulthood is a rough road, of which responsibilities, debaucheries, and insights are unexpectedly discerned. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, a per... Read more

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