“I'm not sentimental—I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

From one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, This Side of Paradise was rumoured to have helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda's hand in marriage.

Amory Blaine is an ambitious, aspiring young writer, haunted by intellectual curiosity, doomed relationships, adolescence, and the danger of seeking status in the early-twentieth century.

This is vintage Fitzgerald, a perfect example of his ability to capture a particular period of American history.

With this modern edition, you can dive into the back catalogue of a writer synonymous with both the flamboyant Jazz Age and the lost generation of 1920s America.

The Legend Classics series:

Around the World in Eighty Days

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Importance of Being Earnest

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Metamorphosis

The Railway Children

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Frankenstein

Wuthering Heights

Three Men in a Boat

The Time Machine

Little Women

Anne of Green Gables

The Jungle Book

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

Dracula

A Study in Scarlet

Leaves of Grass

The Secret Garden

The War of the Worlds

A Christmas Carol

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Heart of Darkness

The Scarlet Letter

This Side of Paradise

Oliver Twist

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Treasure Island

The Turn of the Screw

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Emma

The Trial

A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Grimm Fairy Tales

The Awakening

Mrs Dalloway

Gulliver’s Travels

The Castle of Otranto

Silas Marner

Hard Times