This Side of Paradise

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This Side of Paradise is a romantic, funny novel which was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first major work, at the age of 23. It was a bestseller and established him as a preeminent writer of his time. The novel includes mockery of the social elite and a pampered child of wealth, named Amory Blaine.

There is a fair amount of references to Christianity in the secular novel, in addition to its title, and copious references to "faith" including this:

They were walking through the March twilight where it was as warm as June, and the joy of youth filled his soul so that he felt he must speak.

“I think,” he said and his voice trembled, “that if I lost faith in you I’d lose faith in God.”

She looked at him with such a startled face that he asked her the matter.

“Nothing,” she said slowly, “only this: five men have said that to me before, and it frightens me.”[1]

Here is one of many references to Christianity:

Amory selected a blade of grass and nibbled at it scientifically.

“I never fall in love in August or September,” he proffered.

“When then?”

Christmas or Easter. I'm a liturgist.”

Published on March 26, 1920, this novel has passed into the public domain and thus is available to all for free today.[2]

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