This side of paradise

It is the first novel of the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920, and the title was taken from a line in a poem by Robert Brooke Tiare Tahiti. The book deals with the life and morals of youth after World War I. The protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive student at Princeton University who loves literature. The novel explores the theme of love that is corrupted by greed and social climbing.