{"product_id":"this-side-of-paradise-the-beautiful-and-damned-9781840226621","title":"This Side of Paradise \/ The Beautiful and Damned","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wordsworth Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781840226621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.80w x 2.00d","brand":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096305336501,"sku":"9781840226621","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1d6adbe3-bd23-43e2-a64d-e83600c1de8f.jpg?v=1692805090","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/this-side-of-paradise-the-beautiful-and-damned-9781840226621","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}