This Side of Paradise

Fitzgerald's first novel in the authoritative Cambridge edition, now available as a paperback.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), James L. W. West, III (Edited by)

9780521170475, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 19 April 2012

462 pages, 17 b/w illus.
21.6 x 13.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.58 kg

'Arriving at an accurate and authoritative edition of Fitzgerald could hardly be more worthwhile, and West has done it superlatively. … [he] is doing a tremendously valuable service to Fitzgerald in particular and American literature in general, and we are all in his debt.' Scott Donaldson, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review

F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and infamous: famous for the stylish exuberance of his writing and infamous for the errors – in spelling, fact, grammar and chronology – that peppered his text. This authoritative critical edition offers an accurate, fully annotated text based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript, explanatory notes, textual apparatus and appendices.

Chronology of composition
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. Composition
3. Ending
4. Revision and typing
5. Submission and publication
6. Editorial principles
This Side of Paradise
Record of variants
Later alterations
Explanatory notes
Quotations
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: general [DSB]