The Beautiful and Damned (English Edition)
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"In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual «There!»—yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows."
"The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in 1922. It portrays the New York society in the early 20th century.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned (English Edition)
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE. CHAPTER I: ANTHONY PATCH
A WORTHY MAN AND HIS GIFTED SON
PAST AND PERSON OF THE HERO
THE REPROACHLESS APARTMENT
NOR DOES HE SPIN
AFTERNOON
THREE MEN
NIGHT
A FLASH-BACK IN PARADISE
CHAPTER II: PORTRAIT OF A SIREN
A LADY'S LEGS
TURBULENCE
DISSATISFACTION
ADMIRATION
CHAPTER III: THE CONNOISSEUR OF KISSES
TWO YOUNG WOMEN
DEPLORABLE END OF THE CHEVALIER O'KEEFE
SIGNLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT
MAGIC
BLACK MAGIC
PANIC
WISDOM
THE INTERVAL
TWO ENCOUNTERS
WEAKNESS
SERENADE
BOOK TWO. CHAPTER I: THE RADIANT HOUR
HEYDAY
THREE DIGRESSIONS
THE DIARY
BREATH OF THE CAVE
MORNING
THE USHERS
GLORIA
"CON AMORE"
GLORIA AND GENERAL LEE
SENTIMENT
THE GRAY HOUSE
THE SOUL OF GLORIA
THE END OF A CHAPTER
CHAPTER II: SYMPOSIUM
NIETZSCHEAN INCIDENT
THE PRACTICAL MEN
THE TRIUMPH OF LETHARGY
WINTER
DESTINY
THE SINISTER SUMMER
IN DARKNESS
CHAPTER III: THE BROKEN LUTE
PANIC
THE APARTMENT
THE KITTEN
THE PASSING OF AN AMERICAN MORALIST
THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT
THE BROKEN LUTE
BOOK THREE. CHAPTER I: A MATTER OF CIVILIZATION
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THE MAN-AT-ARMS
AN IMPRESSIVE OCCASION
DEFEAT
THE CATASTROPHE
NIGHTMARE
THE FALSE ARMISTICE
CHAPTER II: A MATTER OF AESTHETICS
THE WILES OF CAPTAIN COLLINS
GALLANTRY
GLORIA ALONE
DISCOMFITURE OF THE GENERALS
ANOTHER WINTER
FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH "HEART TALKS"
"ODI PROFANUM VULGUS"
THE MOVIES
THE TEST
CHAPTER III: NO MATTER!
RICHARD CARAMEL
THE BEATING
THE ENCOUNTER
TOGETHER WITH THE SPARROWS
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