<P> This Side of Paradise was published on March 26, 1920, with a first printing of 3,000 copies . The initial printing sold out in three days . On March 30, four days after publication and one day after selling out the first printing, Fitzgerald wired for Zelda to come to New York and get married that weekend . Barely a week after publication, Zelda and Scott married in New York, on April 3, 1920 . </P> <P> The book went through 12 printings in 1920 and 1921, for a total of 49,075 copies . The novel itself did not provide a huge income for Fitzgerald . Copies sold for $1.75, for which he earned 10 percent on the first 5,000 copies and 15 percent beyond that . In total, in 1920 he earned $6,200 ($82,095.27 in 2015 dollars) from the book . His new fame enabled him to earn much higher rates for his short stories . </P> <P> The book is written in three parts . </P> <P> "Book One: The Romantic Egotist"--The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University . He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers, Monsignor Darcy . While at Princeton he goes back to Minneapolis, where he re-encounters Isabelle Borgé, a young lady whom he had met as a little boy, and starts a romantic relationship with her . At Princeton he repeatedly writes ever more flowery poems, but Amory and Isabelle become disenchanted with each other after meeting again at his prom . </P>

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