THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
内容简介
This is the story of Amory Blaine-a handsome,wealthy,and spoiled young Princeton student.Closely mirroring Fitzgerald's own experiences at school and abroad,Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World -War is the story of "the lost generation."Cynical and world-weary at the age of thirty,Blaine is the symbol of what Fitzgerald described as" a new gen-eration grown up to find all Gods dead,all wars fought,all faiths in man shaken."
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作者简介
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St.Paul,Minnesta,and attended Princeton University.In 1920,the same year in which the publication of This Side of Paradise propelled him to famd,he married Zelda Sayre.The couple divided their time between New York,Paris,and the Rivera,running in expatriate circles taht included such notable literary figures as Gertrude Stein,Ernest Hemingway,and John Dos Passos.One of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century,Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned,The Great Gatsby,and Tender Is the Night.Upon his dearth in 1940,left behind an unfinished novel,The Love of the Last Tycoon,which was published posthumously.
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目录
Introduction
This side of Paradise
Critical Excerpts
F.Scott Fitzgerald on
This Side of Paradise
Suggestions for Further Reading
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读书文摘
罗莎琳：你知道在有些方面我是个大人---而在有些方面---哦，我还是一个小孩子。我要阳光，我要温暖，我要快活，我怕承担责任。我不想去关心杯碟、锅碗瓢盆、扫帚拖把。我想要操心的是我夏天游泳的时候，我的腿是否会变得光滑，肤色是否会变深。
在这与世隔绝的星光与塔尖的幽谷，不要再等候这朦胧的月色，因为一个愿望的永久的早晨已经到期，到了现实的午后。在这里，赫拉克利特，在火和移动的物体中，你是否找到在死气沉沉的时代口气激烈地说出的预言；今天午夜，在余火的幽暗里，在火焰的中央，我的愿望将看到这个世界的壮丽和悲伤。
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