{"product_id":"this-side-of-paradise-f-scott-fitzgerald","title":"This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncreasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on\/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' and wanting money and success more than anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrancis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age - a term he popularized in his short story collection \u003ci\u003eTales of the Jazz Age\u003c\/i\u003e. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e . He was working on \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 304 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65909139046749,"sku":"K026764365","price":18.7,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/2676436500001A.jpg?v=1789300217","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/this-side-of-paradise-f-scott-fitzgerald","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}