Fitzgerald`s first novel, `This Side of Paradise` (1920) was an immediate, spectacular success and established his literary reputation. Perhaps the definitive novel of the `Lost Generation`, it tells the story of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student who halfheartedly involves himself in literary cults, `liberal` student activities and a series of empty flirtations with young women. When he finally does fall truly in love, however, the young woman rejects him for another.