First published in 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald&rsquo;s debut novel&nbsp;<i>This Side of Paradise</i>&nbsp;was a sizzling sensation that put the young American author on the map. This heart-rending romance is about&nbsp;a brilliant Princeton University student full of potential whose life is thrown into turmoil by desire. While in school he goes back to Minneapolis where he re-encounters a young lady whom he met as a little boy, and starts a romantic relationship.&nbsp;The book&#39;s&nbsp;initial printing of 3,000 copies sold out in three days.&nbsp;Virtually a record of the &lsquo;Lost Generation&rsquo; in its college days, <i>This Side of Paradise</i>&nbsp;is a devastating treatment of Fitzgerald&rsquo;s characteristic theme of true love blighted by money and lust.