The Collected Works of Francis Scott Fitzgerald E-Book

F.Scott Fitzgerald

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 1764

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • This Side of Paradise • The Beautiful and Damned • Tales of the Jazz Age • Flappers and Philosophers

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

BOOK ONE—The Romantic Egotist

CHAPTER 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice

CHAPTER 2. Spires and Gargoyles

CHAPTER 3. The Egotist Considers

CHAPTER 4. Narcissus Off Duty

INTERLUDE

May, 1917-February, 1919

BOOK TWO—The Education of a Personage

CHAPTER 1. The Debutante

CHAPTER 2. Experiments in Convalescence

CHAPTER 3. Young Irony

CHAPTER 4. The Supercilious Sacrifice

CHAPTER 5. The Egotist Becomes a Personage

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

THE GREAT GATSBY

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

TAPS AT REVEILLE

TO SHANE LESLIE, GEORGE JEAN NATHAN AND MAXWELL PERKINS

IN APPRECIATION OF MUCH LITERARY HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

I. ANTHONY PATCH

II. PORTRAIT OF A SIREN

III. THE CONNOISSEUR OF KISSES

BOOK TWO

I. THE RADIANT HOUR

II. SYMPOSIUM

III. THE BROKEN LUTE

BOOK THREE

I. A MATTER OF CIVILIZATION

II. A MATTER OF AESTHETICS

III. NO MATTER!

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

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

ANTHONY

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

RETROSPECT

PANIC

THE APARTMENT

THE KITTEN

THE PASSING OF AN AMERICAN MORALIST

NEXT DAY

THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT

THE BROKEN LUTE

BOOK THREE

CHAPTER I

A MATTER OF CIVILIZATION

THE MAN-AT-ARMS

AN IMPRESSIVE OCCASION

DEFEAT

THE CATASTROPHE

NIGHTMARE

GLORIA.

THE FALSE ARMISTICE

CHAPTER II

A MATTER OF AESTHETICS

GLORIA.

THE WILES OF CAPTAIN COLLINS

GALLANTRY

GLORIA ALONE

DISCOMFITURE OF THE GENERALS

ANOTHER WINTER

YOU CAN SELL!!!

"DEAR MR. CARLETON:

"HENRY W. TERRAL."

FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH "HEART TALKS"

"ODI PROFANUM VULGUS"

THE MOVIES

JOSEPH BLACK.

THE TEST

CHAPTER III

NO MATTER!

RICHARD CARAMEL

THE BEATING

THE ENCOUNTER

TOGETHER WITH THE SPARROWS

FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Contents

FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS

The Offshore Pirate

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

The Ice Palace

II

III

IV

V

VI

Head and Shoulders

II

III

IV

V

The Cut-Glass Bowl

II

III

IV

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

II

III

IV

V

VI

Benediction

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

Dalyrimple Goes Wrong

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

The Four Fists

II

III

IV

TALES FROM THE JAZZ AGE

A TABLE OF CONTENTS

MY LAST FLAPPERS

THE JELLY-BEAN

THE CAMEL'S BACK

MAY DAY.

PORCELAIN AND PINK.

FANTASIES

THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON.

TARQUIN OF CHEAPSIDE.

"O RUSSET WITCH!"

UNCLASSIFIED MASTERPIECES

THE LEES OF HAPPINESS.

MR. ICKY

JEMINA.

MY LAST FLAPPERS

THE JELLY-BEAN.

II

III

IV

THE CAMEL'S BACK

II

III

IV

V

MAY DAY

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VII

IX

X

XI

PORCELAIN AND PINK

CURTAIN.

FANTASIES

THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ

II

III

IV

V

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

I

II

TARQUIN OF CHEAPSIDE

II

THE LEGEND OF BRITOMARTIS OR OF CHASTITY

III

"O RUSSET WITCH!"

II

III

IV

UNCLASSIFIED MASTERPIECES

THE LEES OF HAPPINESS

II

III

IV

V

VI

MR. ICKY

THE QUINTESSENCE OF QUAINTNESS IN ONE ACT

JEMINA, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL

A WILD THING

A MOUNTAIN FEUD

THE BIRTH OF LOVE

A MOUNTAIN BATTLE

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

... Well this side of Paradise!...

There's little comfort in the wise.

—Rupert Brooke.

Experience is the name so many people

give to their mistakes.

—Oscar Wilde.

BOOK ONE—The Romantic Egotist

CHAPTER 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her.

But Beatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her father's estate at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, or in Rome at the Sacred Heart Convent—an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally wealthy—showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had—her youth passed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of the Older Roman Families; known by name as a fabulously wealthy American girl to Cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whiskey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broadened in two senses during a winter in Vienna. All in all Beatrice O'Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.

In her less important moments she returned to America, met Stephen Blaine and married him—this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day in ninety-six.

When Amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative mind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her father's private car, from Coronado, where his mother became so bored that she had a nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel, down to Mexico City, where she took a mild, almost epidemic consumption. This trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere—especially after several astounding bracers.

So, while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at Newport, or being spanked or tutored or read to from "Do and Dare," or "Frank on the Mississippi," Amory was biting acquiescent bell-boys in the Waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly specialized education from his mother.

"Amory."

"Yes, Beatrice." (Such a quaint name for his mother; she encouraged it.)

"Dear, don'tthinkof getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up."

"All right."

"I am feeling very old to-day, Amory," she would sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos, her voice exquisitely modulated, her hands as facile as Bernhardt's. "My nerves are on edge—on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine."

Amory's penetrating green eyes would look out through tangled hair at his mother. Even at this age he had no illusions about her.

"Amory."

"Oh,yes."

"I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish."

She fed him sections of the "Fetes Galantes" before he was ten; at eleven he could talk glibly, if rather reminiscently, of Brahms and Mozart and Beethoven. One afternoon, when left alone in the hotel at Hot Springs, he sampled his mother's apricot cordial, and as the taste pleased him, he became quite tipsy. This was fun for a while, but he essayed a cigarette in his exaltation, and succumbed to a vulgar, plebeian reaction. Though this incident horrified Beatrice, it also secretly amused her and became part of what in a later generation would have been termed her "line."