(AMORY ELAINE inherited from his Brother 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 Encyclopeadia 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 Beatnce'Q'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 unasser ... tive figure with a face haJf-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in H taking care" of his wife, continually haxassed by the idea. that he didn't and couldn't understand her. But Deatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her fath

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; BOOK ONE: THE ROl-lANTIC EGOTIST; C!IAl'Tn I!ACR r AMORY, SON OF BEATRICE 3; 11 SPIRES AND GARGOYLES ? ? ? ? ? 41; lIT '!HE EGOTIST CONSIDERS 99; IV NARCISSUS OFF Dtrr'Y 131; [INTEiLUDE: MAY, 1917-FEBRUARY, 1919]; BOOK TWO: THE EDUCATION OF A PERSONAGE; ClJ~R PAC!:; 1 THE D ''"BUTANTE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 179; II EXPERIMENTS m CONVALESCENCE; -; 212; III YOUNG IRONY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ; IV ThE SUPERCILIOUS SACRIFICE; V TnE EGOTIST BECOMES A PERSONAGE

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Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920.

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