This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Jazz Age Coming-of-Age Novel of Princeton, Romance, Ambition, and Postwar DisillusionmentBy F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length11h 29m
About this audiobook
This Side of Paradise, presented in its original 1920 edition, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's dazzling debut novel and a defining document of postwar American modernity. Following the self-fashioning of Amory Blaine through prep school, Princeton, romance, disillusionment, and spiritual drift, the book blends lyrical prose, social satire, theatrical dialogue, letters, poems, and interior reflection. Its restless form mirrors the fractured aspirations of the emerging Jazz Age and places it between the Victorian Bildungsroman and the experimental modern novel. Fitzgerald drew deeply on his own youth: his Midwestern origins, Catholic schooling, Princeton ambitions, wartime service, and volatile courtship of Zelda Sayre all echo through Amory's world. Born in 1896, Fitzgerald belonged to the generation that came of age amid World War I and inherited both unprecedented freedom and profound uncertainty. The novel's urgency reflects a young writer transforming autobiography into cultural diagnosis. Readers interested in the origins of American modernism, youth culture, and the mythology of the Jazz Age will find this edition indispensable. It is especially rewarding for those who wish to see Fitzgerald before Gatsby: brilliant, extravagant, vulnerable, and already attuned to the costs of desire.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (1.6K)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length11 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)
8This Side of Paradise (pt. 2)
2Introduction
9This Side of Paradise (pt. 3)
3Synopsis
10This Side of Paradise (pt. 4)
4Historical Context
11Analysis
5Author Biography
12Reflection
Show all chaptersShow less
6This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition
13Memorable Quotes
7This Side of Paradise (pt. 1)
#DarkAcademia Classics CollectionF. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, R. M. Ballantyne, Owen Johnson, Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth, Max Beerbohm, George Gissing, E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, Henry Blake Fuller, James Joyce116h 59m$1.99 · $0.00
The Collected Parody and Humor Prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald2h 23m$2 · $0.00
The Collected Early Stories of 1909 - 1917: 14 previously uncollected stories! (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald5h 22m4.3 (11)$2 · $0.00
The Beautiful & Damned (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald16h 54m4.1 (3.4K)$2 · $0.00
Absolution - a false start to The Great Gatsby (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald2h 24m4.0 (1.5K)$2 · $0.00
The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald5h 4m$2 · $0.00
Flappers and Philosophers - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald8h 37m4.4 (122)$2 · $0.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Sämtliche Romane (Kommentiert)F. Scott Fitzgerald59h 21m4.5 (423)$2 · $0.00
Taps at Reveille - The Original 1935 Edition (18 short stories) (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald14h 21m$2 · $0.00
The Collected Miscellaneous Writings (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald12h 53m$2 · $0.00
The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald34h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby & The Beautiful and Damned (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald22h 9m4.4 (160)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby & The Beautiful and Damned (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald22h 8m4.0 (89)$2 · $0.00
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged) (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald3h 20m$2 · $0.00
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Tales of the Jazz Age)F. Scott Fitzgerald2h 24m3.7 (86.9K)$1 · $0.00
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONF. Scott Fitzgerald2h 10m3.7 (83.3K)$1 · $0.00
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALDF. Scott Fitzgerald182h 52m4.5 (2.1K)$1 · $0.00
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald7h4.0 (6.4M)$1 · $0.00
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALDF. Scott Fitzgerald22h 37m4.1 (388)$2 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m4.5 (10.6K)$2 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The North American IndianEdward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge6h4.5 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored 13 Chapter Version + The Revised 20 Chapter Version (Annotated)Oscar Wilde16h 12m4.5 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
Grimoire Of The Everyday WitchIsadora Lys / Virginia Santos5h 35m4.5 (3.9K)$9 · $0.00
Winnie-the-PoohAlan Alexander Milne2h 52m4.5 (401.1K)$3 · $0.00
Sitting PrettyRebekah Taussig7h 33m4.5 (18.9K)$26 · $0.00
The Poetic Edda & The Prose EddaSnorri Sturluson, Saemund Sigfusson9h 34m4.5 (4K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain (Annotated)Mark Twain23h 21m4.5 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery10h 58m4.5 (46.7K)$1 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett11h 23m4.5 (189.9K)$29 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
You may also like
The Virginia Woolf Complete Collection: 6 Novels; Selected Short Stories; Selected EssaysVirginia Woolf80h 47m4.5 (2.5K)$105 · $0.00
BoyhoodLeo Tolstoy3h 8m3.9 (1.5K)$2.30
BoyhoodLeo Tolstoy3h 8m3.9 (2.8K)$4.10 · $0.00
This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald9h 42m3.8 (75.6K)$2.30 · $0.00
Jimmy NeurosisJames Oseland9h 55m4.0 (257)$29 · $0.00
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce6h 53m3.8 (199.4K)Free
Goodbye, ColumbusPhilip Roth9h 6m3.9 (23.1K)$20
Martin EdenJack London15h 4m4.2 (62.2K)$2.40
Stop-TimeFrank Conroy11h 22m4.0 (3.4K)$20 · $0.00
You Know Me Al, A Busher's LettersRing Lardner5h 29m3.9 (1.4K)$2.30
MARTIN EDEN (Modern Classics Series) (Annotated)Jack London16h 46m4.3 (465)$2 · $0.00
This side of paradiseFrancis Scott Fitzgerald9h 51m3.7 (90.8K)$4 · $0.00
This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald6h 42m3.7 (90.1K)Free
Jack Kerouac Is Dead to MeGae Polisner6h 52m4.1 (493)$17 · $0.00
The OrchardDavid Hopen17h 12m3.8 (4.7K)$40 · $0.00
Childhood - Boyhood - YouthLeo Tolstoy14h 16m4.0 (15.8K)$4 · $0.00
RejectionTony Tulathimutte8h 2m3.7 (42.7K)$26 · $0.00
A Room With a ViewE. M. Forster7h 35m3.9 (243.8K)$24 · $0.00
Little Women - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill (200 illustrations) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott22h4.4 (2.1M)$2 · $0.00
The making of a bigot (Annotated)Rose Macaulay7h 41m$2 · $0.00