With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. This Side
of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents,
whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through
to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his
academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young women are
fatally damaged by the collapse of his family s fortune, and the novel ends with
him poised to face the challenge of making his own way in the world. Composed in
an unconventional narrative mode, the novel is a rich fusion of satiric