Amory Blaine, a handsome and self-absorbed Princeton student, drifts through love affairs and disillusionment into the uncertain dawn of the Jazz Age.
Books mentioned in This Side of Paradise (47)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “Among other things he read: “Little Women” (twice)”
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: “excellent American novels: “Vandover and the Brute,” “The Damnation of Theron Ware””
The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: ““Sinister Street,” and “The Research Magnificent” were examples of such books”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “I’ve read ‘Anna Karenina’ and the ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ of course”
L'Allegro by John Milton: “In the spring he read “L’Allegro,” by request”
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: “I’ve just finished a book of his, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’”
Agamemnon by Aeschylus: “the divine irony of the “Agamemnon” I find the only answer to this bitter age”
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “He was where Goethe was when he began “Faust””
Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc: “the greatest line in literature occurred in Act III of “Arsene Lupin””
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens: ““Dombey and Son,” because he thought he really should read better stuff”
Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle: “Monsignor made quite as much out of “The Beloved Vagabond” and “Sir Nigel””
The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol: “Among other things he read: "For the Honor of the School," "Little Women" (twice), "The Common Law," "Sapho," "Dangerous Dan McGrew," "The Broad Highway" (three times), "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Three Weeks," "Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's Chum," "Gunga Din," The Police Gazette, and Jim-Jam Jems.”
The Common Law by Robert W. Chambers: ““The Common Law,” “Sapho,” “Dangerous Dan McGrew””
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: ““The Gentleman from Indiana,” “The New Arabian Nights””
The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: “two sleepy, shivering boys read to each other from “The New Machiavelli””
Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris: “excellent American novels: “Vandover and the Brute””
Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: “he was where Conrad was when he wrote “Almayer’s Folly””
Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan: “Wasn’t the comic opera, ‘Patience,’ written about him?”
Sapho by Alphonse Daudet: ““The Common Law,” “Sapho,” “Dangerous Dan McGrew””
Frank on the Mississippi by Harry Castlemon: “being spanked or tutored or read to from “Do and Dare,” or “Frank on the Mississippi””
Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie: ““None Other Gods,” “Sinister Street,” and “The Research Magnificent””
Clair de Lune by Paul Verlaine: “he remembered attempting to recite “Clair de Lune” at luncheon”
None Other Gods by Robert Hugh Benson: ““None Other Gods,” “Sinister Street,” and “The Research Magnificent””
The Beloved Vagabond by William J. Locke: “Monsignor made quite as much out of “The Beloved Vagabond” and “Sir Nigel””
The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle: “comfortably couched up in his room, he munched Nabiscos and finished “The White Company””
Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn: ““The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Three Weeks””
A Song in Time of Order by Algernon Charles Swinburne: “Swinburne’s Song in the Time of Order might well have been Tennyson’s title”
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: “I’ve read ‘Anna Karenina’ and the ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ of course”
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “some silly girl asks me if I've read 'This Side of Paradise'”
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “The initial reviews weren't great, and the book was widely considered to be inferior to Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise.”