Written at the age of 23, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE catapulted Fitzgerald into the literary limelight. This semiautobiographical novel of a privileged young man and his journey from prep school to Princeton to World War I provides a poignant portrait of the Lost Generation.

Igor Stravinsky created PULCINELLA, rewriting 18th- century music in his own spiky style to create a bracing neoclassical concoction.