This Side of Paradise

Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett.If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw thunder-storms and other huge convulsions; that is how they saw meadow, grove and stream—in terms of their own fair humanity. They saw such natural phenomena as shadows of spiritual conflict or of spiritual calm, and within the appearance apprehended the truth. So it may be that I have done. Some such may be the explanation of all fairy experience. Let it be so. It is a fact, I believe, that there is nothing revealed in this book which will not bear a spiritual, and a moral, interpretation; and I venture to say of some of it that the moral implications involved are exceedingly momentous, and timely too. I need not refer to such matters any further.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs.Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despite all kinds of assistance from his friends in the underworld and the wealthy and sophisticated young woman with whom he falls in love. Set in contemporary America, mostly Chicago, this 1921 short novel is one of a handful of Burroughs' works that does not take us to a fantasy or an exotic setting.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Highwayman by H. C. Bailey.A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Literature of Arabia by Epiphanius Wilson.A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. The author chose the most striking of these episodes as best calculated to serve as genuine specimens of Arabian literature.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton.Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for some of her victims. Every character she introduces is vividly depicted, no matter how minor. Yet for all the clarity of these depictions, the lives these people live, though busy, are empty and meaningless. The novel is a brilliant description of evasion and inauthenticity.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Age of Innocence (version 2) by Edith Wharton.Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin Ellen Olenska, who has been living in Europe and who has returned following a scandalous separation from her husband.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald.Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Several of the stories had also been published earlier, independently, in either The Metropolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Tribune, or Vanity Fair.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald.This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald.Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920.Featured on This Side of Paradise.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.