The Romantic Egotist (unpublished earlier version)

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The Romantic Egotist (unpublished earlier version) is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early, unreleased draft novel that he later extensively revised into his debut work, This Side of Paradise.

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instanceOf early draft
unpublished novel manuscript
associatedWithAuthorCareerPhase F. Scott Fitzgerald's early career
author F. Scott Fitzgerald
authorDebutTarget F. Scott Fitzgerald
completionPeriod late 1910s
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator F. Scott Fitzgerald
featuresCharacterType American upper-middle-class youth
Princeton undergraduate
genre bildungsroman
novel
hasTheme identity
romantic relationships
social ambition
youth and self-discovery
isEarlyVersionOf This Side of Paradise
language English
laterReworkedAs This Side of Paradise
literaryMovement Modernism
mainCharacter Amory Blaine
medium prose
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor being the unreleased precursor to This Side of Paradise
relatedWorkByAuthor This Side of Paradise
revisedInto This Side of Paradise
setting early 20th-century United States
sharesMaterialWith This Side of Paradise
status unpublished
timePeriodOfAction pre-World War I and World War I era
writtenDuring F. Scott Fitzgerald's youth

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This Side of Paradise precededBy The Romantic Egotist (unpublished earlier version)