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	The Other side of paradise: Toni Morrison's making of mythic history African American Review - Find Articles
		Paradise (1998), Toni Morrison's seventh novel and her first since becoming the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), was greeted with the most mixed reviews of the author's three-decade career.
		Paradise extends this earlier example of Morrison's historical revision, creating a springboard for metahistorical argument about conventional national history and the politics of truth it involves--an argument, that is, that probes the ways that truth is linked to systems of power that produce and sustain it.
		As with Beloved and Jazz--the two other novels in her trilogy of excessive love--Morrison's conception of the novel developed from kernels in 19th-century African American history that center on slaves or descendants of slaves fleeing the rampant, violent racism of the South.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_39/ai_n15895659 (920 words)

	F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career.
		Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America.
		This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and infamous: famous for the stylish exuberance of his writing and infamous for the errors - in spelling, fact, grammar, and chronology - that peppered his text.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/adpage.php?id=522 (109 words)

	This Side of Paradise: Introduction Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Scott Fitzgerald wrote the first draft of his first novel in the army during 1917 and 1918.
		Set mostly at Princeton, This Side of Paradise was the most influential American college novel of its time and announced the arrival of a younger generation with new values and aspirations.
		Copyright 1996, the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.
	www.sc.edu /fitzgerald/writings/tsop.html (127 words)

	Salon \| The Salon Interview: Toni Morrison
		Morrison's seventh novel, "Paradise," had just been published by Knopf, and throughout our talk her phone rang continually with news -- from her son, her sister, a friend -- of the reviews the book was getting.
		"Paradise" -- which opens with the startling sentence "They shoot the white girl first" -- involves the murder of several women in the 1970s by a group of fl men, intent on preserving the honor of their small Oklahoma town; they see the women as bad, a wayward influence on their moral lives.
		Her novel "Jazz" appeared in 1992, and in 1993 Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1998/02/cov_si_02int.html (1580 words)

	This Side Of Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"This Side of Paradise" is a mess: it is as uneven, affected, feebly pretentious and relentlessly immature as its hero, the tiresomely self-conscious young Minnesotan-gone-to-Princeton Amory Blaine.
		That the novel was a roaring success upon publication in 1920 -- it was to prove the most popular book, in terms of sales, ever produced by its author -- presumably speaks to the public's recognition of something new and revealing in it.
		The first two novels have good prose, and the present book is better than his second novel "The Beautiful and the Damned." This present book is probably his best work, but with so much variation in his work, you can also make a case for "Tender is the Night" as being the best.
	www.classic-literature.co.uk /book-store/index.php?Operation=CustomerReviews&ItemId=0684843781&ReviewPage=2 (1931 words)

	Grace Evans
		This Side of Paradise was not Fitzgerald’s first published work; he had already published numerous other creative works, including poetry and short stories.
		The novel was first published with a series of mistakes including misspellings of names, book titles, political figures, movie stars, sports heroes and even martyrs.
		This Side of Paradise nevertheless was a runaway bestseller and catapulted Fitzgerald and Zelda, whom he married shortly after the publication in 1920, into literary celebrity status.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/sd224/Classes/Hemingway,Fitzgerald/reports/evanscrhParadise.htm (820 words)

	This Side of Paradise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F.
		Widely considered to be one of Fitzgerald's weaker works because of his relative inexperience and youth at the time of writing, This Side of Paradise is nonetheless a work of great literary merit.
		This article about a novel is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise (406 words)

	F. Scott Fitzgerald Bio
		Before the novel was published in 1920, F. Scott began gaining attention to his various short stories which were written as a way to gain income.
		It was after the fourth novel was published that the period known as “the crack-up” occurred.
		In 1939, his fifth novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was started only to never be finished to due a fatal heart attack in Graham’s apartment on December 21, 1940.
	www.bsu.edu /web/jawieging/fitzgerald.htm (756 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paperback, Special Value
		First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century.
		Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual.
		More than simply a “youth novel”, as most reviewers have claimed, I found this to be an accurate criticism of the mass media driven rat race that we continue to live in today, more than 75 years after the book was first published.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&pwb=1&ean=9780486289991 (1169 words)

	Book Review: Toni Morrison's Paradise
		The novel opens in the year 1976, as the second and third generation men of the community, threatened by change, have decided to take matters into their own hands.
		The novel was immediately claimed by a number of critics as a feminist tome, rehashing the oppression of the patriarchal society imposing its order on the creative and artistic women at the convent.
		Paradise cannot completely capture the full flavor of the past one hundred years of turbulent African American history, but I believe that it does seize upon the essence of our human struggle to understand one another and our place in a larger universe.
	www.womenwriters.net /bookreviews/whitton2.htm (1159 words)

	F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
		F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career.
		Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America.
		This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and infamous: famous for the stylish exuberance of his writing and infamous for the errors - in spelling, fact, grammar, and chronology - that peppered his text.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=522 (109 words)

	SparkNotes: This Side of Paradise: Context
		This Side of Paradise is a work of a young author, and possesses some fundamental flaws, both structural and thematic.
		This novel achieved enormous success and established Fitzgerald as the chronicler of the new post-war youth of America--of flappers, alcohol, and the Jazz Age.
		While the heroine of the novel recovers, Zelda sadly did not, remaining in institutions the rest of her days.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/paradise/context.html (802 words)

	This Side of Paradise - LittyBooks
		Outwardly cocky and inwardly insecure, The novel chronicles Amory through elitist prep schools, Ivy League college (Princeton), and his graduation into metropolitan living with a job that does little to support his luxurious lifestyle but which is offset my his modest trust fund.
		The idea that money doesn’t necessarily equate with happiness, but does somehow relate with a lack of morality and an overwhelming egotism is so richly developed by the characters in Gatsby that it influences the lens that through which I see my social environment.
		My hope was that This Side of Paradise would be a version of Gatsby focusing on youthful exuberance and the growth into adulthood.
	www.littyhoops.com /books/2006/06/this-side-of-paradise.html (468 words)

	Today in History: September 24
		The success of this novel enabled Fitzgerald to marry Zelda Sayre, whom he had met while stationed at Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama.
		Over the course of the next decade and a half, while struggling to cope with the demons of his alcoholism and her emerging mental illness, the Fitzgeralds enjoyed a life of literary celebrity among the American artists and writers who had expatriated to Paris after the First World War.
		Although it initially met with little commercial success, the novel about the American aspiration for material success has become one of the most popular, widely read, and critically acclaimed works of fiction in the nation's literature.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/sep24.html (581 words)

	Alibris: Paradise
		THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation, was written while he was in the army, extensively revised, and finally published in 1920 when he was only 23 years old.
		Detective Jesse Stone's post-baseball game celebration in the idyllic New England hamlet of Paradise is interrupted when the body of a teenage girl is found shot and dumped in the lake.
		"Paradise Alley" is a story of the intersection of the Irish- and African-American experiences in the crucible of 19th century New York--a story of race and hatred, love and war, of risk and dauntless courage.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Paradise (1344 words)

	This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
		I'd have to say This Side of Paradise was a tough read for myself, not because of the wording, but because it was so dry and boring.
		While his 1st novel does lack the profound mysticism, depth, and overwhelming power of the "Great Gatsby", this book is still a beautifully constucted web of words that to me lack nothing but the sense of finality with good old Amory.
	www.online-literature.com /fitzgerald/sideparadise (1414 words)

	Autobiographical novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An autobiographical novel is a novel based on the life of the author.
		Novels that portray settings and/or situations with which the author is familiar are not necessarily autobiographical.
		Authors may opt to write a semi-autobiographical novel rather than a true memoir for a variety of reasons: to protect the privacy of their family, friends, and loved ones; to achieve emotional distance from the subject; or for artistic reasons, such as simplification of plot lines, themes, and other details.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autobiographical_novel (768 words)

	This Side of Paradise Summary & Essays - F. Scott Fitzgerald
		Fitzgerald sold his first major short stories while waiting for the printing, but This Side of Paradise was his major debut, an immediate success that marked both the dawn of the Jazz Age and the dawn of Fitzgerald’s turbulent career.
		Widely criticized as a haphazard collection of short stories that fail to cohere as a whole, This Side of Paradise does reveal some naivety in its young author, but its unique structure is also a vital part of what makes it a challenging and innovative text.
		In the early 2000s it was recognized as an enormously influential and compelling novel by an emerging legend of American literature.
	www.enotes.com /this-side (255 words)

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		The rest of his life was marked by a struggle between the temptation of a glamorous life, wealth, and fame and a desire to perfect his craft.
		The poor reception of his fourth novel, Tender is the Night (1934), led to his own breakdown, recorded in his essays collected by Edmund Wilson in The Crack-Up Fitzgerald did recover sufficiently to become a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1937.
		Miller’s novel, The Black Money, is said to be the result of Macdonald’s long meditations on the themes and patterns of action in The Great Gatsby, a novel he read annually.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/studentsamlit/fitzgerald.htm (2216 words)

	Alibris: Bildungsromane
		The heroine of Styron's novel is based on a Polish survivor of Auschwitz he knew when he lived in a Brooklyn rooming house in the late 1940s.
		In Roddy Doyle's novel witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights, his earthy neighborhood, and the trials of his little brother Sinbad.
		Dickens's huge, rambling novel tells the story of the Nickleby family after the death of the father, when the family is tyrannized by their nefarious Uncle Ralph.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Bildungsromane (1139 words)

	LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- This Side of Paradise, OR, The Dark Side of the American Dream in the 20s
		In his novels, the majority of which are instilled with autobiographical elements- he describes the confusion and despair caused by the hunt for material success.
		It is a quest novel, since while reading it we follow Amory in his journey towards self-realization and by extension we take a glimpse in the confusion and turbulence of the Twenties.
		By the end of the novel, it is clear that Amory Blaine’s romantic qualities, those deriving by his quest for the “Holy Grail” in life are seriously tampered by an existential conclusion: “He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky: “I know my self”, he cried, “but that is all”.
	www.literatureclassics.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=1096 (2552 words)

	Today in History: September 24
		The success of this novel enabled Fitzgerald to marry Zelda Sayre, whom he had met while stationed at Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama.
		Over the course of the next decade and a half, while struggling to cope with the demons of his alcoholism and her emerging mental illness, the Fitzgeralds enjoyed a life of literary celebrity among the American artists and writers who had expatriated to Paris after the First World War.
		Although it initially met with little commercial success, the novel about the American aspiration for material success has become one of the most popular, widely read, and critically acclaimed works of fiction in the nation's literature.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/sep24.html (581 words)

	Amazon.ca: This Side of Paradise: Books: F. Scott Fitzgerald,Susan Orlean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This Side of Paradise is a must read for anyone who wants to explore their own life, and how they are living it.
		This novel is the pronunciation of Amory Blaine's (read Fitzgerald's) emotional growth, sparked by the destruction of all the axioms that he thought he knew.
		Of course, the book has its merits for the fact that it is the first novel of a great novelist and it contains the seeds of the literary style that he polished with later works.
	www.amazon.ca /This-Side-Paradise-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0345481224 (1163 words)

	Justin R
		This Side of Paradise was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel.
		After its publication, This Side of Paradise was greeted with a hail of criticism, both good and bad.
		Hogg, whose criticism was found in one of Fitzgerald’s scrapbooks, foreshadows the future and sums up the groundbreaking first novel.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~bmangum/TSOPCRgreene.htm (362 words)

	Review \| The Other Side of Eden
		It is at once an exorcism of family wounds and secrets, an exposé of the projections of religious seekers and of the baroque and lethal world of New Age cults and gurus....
		On the other side of Eden, anthropologist, author and documentary filmmaker Hugh Brody delivers a noteworthy account of Earth's vanishing hunter-gatherer and agrarian cultures.
		If The Other Side of Eden were a travel book in the style of Paul Theroux with a little more color or Bill Bryson without the huge guffaws, it would be a fabulous -- perhaps eternally unforgettable -- tome.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/sideofeden.html (745 words)

	PAW- May 8, 1996
		The official Princeton has always felt a certain ambivalence toward its famous son whose first novel, This Side of Paradise, fixed in the public mind a picture of Princeton as a rich boy's school, a place of lazy affluence dominated by the eating clubs and their snobbish pecking order.
		His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a moralistic and, some would say, prophetic tale about the decline and fall of Anthony and Gloria Patch, a contemporary American couple, who go from wealth and academic success to alcoholic ruin.
		It is the archetypal American novel of social ambition and the often tragic consequences of innocence betrayed, whether the paradise lost is a midwestern boyhood, Paris in the Twenties, or Gatsby's platonic ideal of Daisy.
	www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_old/PAW95-96/15_9596/0508feat.html (1853 words)

	Toni Morrison: Paradise
		The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent.
		In Paradise—her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature—Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance.
		From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There...
	www.luminarium.org /contemporary/tonimorrison/paradise.htm (430 words)

	This Side of Paradise - 150,000 eBooks - eBookMall
		F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned the post World War I lost generation.
		This is the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age.
		The story of Amory Blaine's adolescence and undergraduate days at Princeton, This Side of Paradise captures the essence of an American generation struggling to define itself in the aftermath of World War I and the destruction of "the old order." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains relevant even today.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/this-side-of-paradise-fitzgerald-ebooks.htm (868 words)

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