This Side Of Paradise
Presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's bildungsroman about a handsome, wealthy Princeton student named Amory Blaine, whose experiences with love, war, and poverty lead him to self-realization; and includes a contextual introduction, critical excerpts spanning 1919 through 1988, and commentary on the novel by Fitzgerald himself.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: young men, bildungsromans, fitzgerald, f. scott, american literature, fiction, world war, 1914-1918, children of the rich [X], college students, advertising, colleges and universities, children, rich, romance fiction, bildungsromans, love stories [X], love stories, school stories, college stories, rich people, classism, rejection (psychology)
Mansfield Park
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: young women, children of the rich [X], country homes, adoptees, cousins, england, rich, austen, jane, english literature, love stories [X], love, uncles, domestic fiction, domestic fiction, love stories, poor families, rich people, poor, romance fiction
Washington Square
Catherine Sloper, an heiress favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, finds herself torn between an attractive suitor and her adored father, who believes the young man to be a fortune hunter.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: inheritance and succession, fathers and daughters, children of the rich [X], beauty, personal, young women, washington square (new york, n.y.), man-woman relationships, father-daughter relationship, man-woman relationship, new york (n.y.), love stories [X], human relations, interpersonal relations, fiction, courtship, rich, personal appearance, domestic fiction, romance fiction