F. Scott Fitzgerald great American novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. At Princeton he falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, and despite his efforts to court her, is rejected. Following their break-up, Amory is shipped overseas, to serve in the army in World War I. After the war, Amory Blaine falls in love with a New York debutante named Rosalind Connage.

Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in love with Rosalind Connage, a beautiful debutante with aspirations of her own. At turns wildly optimistic and bitterly cynical, This Side of Paradise is the story of what happens to love when it becomes distorted by greed.

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