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In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. 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Ginevra warned in one of the many letters she sent to Scott, but of course that's just what he did-for the next two decades. Though he fell in love with Zelda Sayre soon after learning of Ginevra's engagement to a well-to-do midwesterner, Scott drew on memories of Ginevra for his most unforgettable female characters-Isabelle Borge and Rosalind Connage in This Side of Paradise, Judy Jones in Winter Dreams, and above all Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. 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This Side of Paradise launched Fitzgerald as the \"Prophet of the Jazz Age\" and the spokesman for his generation. It is still one of the major reasons for his fame today.  The story of how Fitzgerald wrote and published the book is fascinating. In The Making of \"This Side of Paradise\", James West studies the inception, composition, publication, and textual history of the novel. He traces its growth from its earliest version, entitled \"The Romantic Egotist,\" to its final published form.  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