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Tonight we'll be reading This Side of Paradise, the 1920 debut novel from F Scott Fitzgerald, who later wrote The Great

Gatsby. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. The novel

famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayes's hand in marriage.

Its publication was her condition of acceptance.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Book one, the Romantic Egotist.

Chapter 1. Amory, son of Beatrice.

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait except the stray inexpressible few that made

him worthwhile.

His father, an ineffectual inarticulate man with a taste for Byron

and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica grew wealthy at 30 through the death of two

elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his,

went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara.

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