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" Book One: The Romantic Egotist "— the novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University.

He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers, Monsignor Darcy.

While at Princeton he goes back to Minneapolis where he re-encounters Isabelle Borgé, a young lady whom he met as a little boy and starts a romantic relationship with her, but after a few days he becomes disillusioned by her and returns to Princeton.