This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.
![This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic [first edition]](http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9781550963540-us.jpg "This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic [first edition]")
