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This Side of Paradise

 
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dc.contributor.author Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
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dc.subject.lcsh Fiction -- United States -- 20th century
dc.subject.lcsh Novels -- United States -- 20th century
dc.title This Side of Paradise
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This Side of Paradise
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York: Scribner, 1920.
BOOK ONE
The Romantic Egotist
CHAPTER 1
Amory, Son of Beatrice
AMORY BLAINE inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the
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grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in “taking care” of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and . . .
										
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