“This Side of Paradise" is the first great literary work created by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) which immediately brought him universal acknowledgement. An enchanting youth, full of radiant dreams and hopes for the dazzling prospects at the be- ginning of the novel, having lost his friends in the war, having experienced tragedies in love, being out ofmeans of subsistence, finds himselfon “this side of Paradise" and tries to find the right niche for himself. Such is not only the main hero's fate but that ofthe author himselfand his generation burnt by the First World \Var. "lhe novel at- tracts the reader owing to its veracity and deep psychological analysis ofthe characters’ behaviour. These qualities make it interesting and topical for the readers in Ukraine as well as in the whole world.