The Making of "This Side of Paradise" / / James L. W. West III.

"To write it took three months; to conceive it-three minutes; to collect the data in it-all my life." So said F. Scott Fitzgerald regarding This Side of Paradise, the novel he began writing in November 1917 and published on March 26, 1920. This Side of Paradise launched Fitzgerald as the &...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1983
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (158 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beginning: November 1917-July 1919
  • 2. The Romantic Egotist
  • 3. The Education of a Personage
  • 4. Grammarian, Typist, and Editor
  • 5. This Side of Paradise
  • Appendixes
  • A. Physical Characteristics of the Romantic Egotist Fragments
  • B. Physical Characteristics of the Manuscript
  • C. Manuscript-First Edition Conversion Table
  • D. Variants Between the First English and American Editions
  • Index