F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald Library, Unabridged Library edition

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]

Partially autobiographical, This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel and written in 1920, was credited with having invented the American flapper. This dazzling chronicle of youth and the Jazz Age remains bitingly relevant decades later.

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled, and snobbish young man from the Midwest attends Princeton University to acquire a refined sense of the proper social values. Lacking all sense of purpose, he interests himself primarily in literary cults, vaguely liberal student activities, and a series of flirtations with some rather predatory young ladies. Amory states that ''It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.''