"It bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius.
Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student.
Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth.
Scott Fitzgerald.
It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood." -Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune This Side OF Paradise is the debut novel of F. "It bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius