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3 unusual facts about This Side of Paradise


The Bridal Party

6 After his novel This Side of Paradise was published, it provided him with almost instant success, and a week later he married Zelda.

This Side of Paradise

On September 4, 1919, Fitzgerald gave the manuscript to a friend to deliver to Maxwell Perkins, an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.

Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth.



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