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The young talented and boundlessly ambitious Francis Scott Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. And this book was not only the fruit of his literary creativity, but also an ideally thought-out step on the path to success.

Demobilized after the First World War and in love with Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald wanted to marry his beloved so much that he was ready to do anything to win over her parents. The book, originally called "Romantic Egoist", absorbed many autobiographical features of the writer's fate and brought him the first and resounding success.

The story of Emory Blaine. a young and equally ambitious American, capable of going to great lengths to achieve his goals, has become the personification of the "Jazz Age", its aspirations and disappointments. As Fitzgerald himself said. "an author must write for the youth of his generation, for the critics of the next, and for the professors of all that follow."