This Side of Paradise

Author  F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of young Amory Blaine—egoistic, versatile, callow, imaginative. As Amory makes his way among debutantes and Princeton undergraduates, we enter an environment heady with the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America after World War I. We experience Amory’s sailing hopes, crushing defeats, deep loves and stubborn losses. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood unfolds with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald’s remarkable formal inventiveness couches Amory’s narrative among songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. The…

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf
The Island of Dr. Moreau Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque
Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence
The Best of Lupin

The Best of Lupin

Maurice Leblanc
Orlando

Orlando

Virginia Woolf
Sunset Gun

Sunset Gun

Dorothy Parker
The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening and Selected Stories Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others Men Without Women

Men Without Women

Ernest Hemingway
The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton