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This Side of Paradise

Language: English (US)

Amory Blaine goes up to Princeton convinced of his own promise, drifts through friendships, the war and two love affairs, and arrives at the end knowing rather less than he started with. Published in 1920, when its author was twenty-three, and immediately taken as the portrait of a new postwar generation. Public domain in the EU (author died 1940). Source: Project Gutenberg.

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... Well this side of Paradise!... There’s little comfort in the wise. —Rupert Brooke.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. —Oscar Wilde. To SIGOURNEY FAY

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