This Side of Paradise Benedict But it’s so hard to

But it’s so hard to be a good dog when there are cats to chase and flowers to dig up

Sears unearthed a trove of beautiful verse that was just waiting to be discovered

When Ames's boss and lover

fragile struggle for life along the shoreline

and the quiet beauty of healing

This Side of Paradise Benedict But it’s so hard toFitzgerald's debut novel, first published in 1920, describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned, and was an overnight success "Discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude." Charting the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, this novels follow him as