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4368.txt | Flappers and Philosophers | this unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. from the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip un... |
64317.txt | The Great Gatsby | in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that i've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
he didn't say any more, but we've always been un... |
6695.txt | Tales of the Jazz Age | jim powell was a jelly-bean. much as i desire to make him an appealing character, i feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. he was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine three-quarters per cent jelly-bean and he grew lazily all during jelly-bean season, which is every season, down in... |
68229.txt | All the Sad Young Men | begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created--nothing. that is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. when i hear a man proclaiming himself... |
805.txt | This Side of Paradise | 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 chic... |
9830.txt | The Beautiful and Damned | 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 a... |
gutenberg_net_au_ebooks03_0301261.txt | Tender Is the Night | on the pleasant shore of the french riviera, about half way between marseilles and the italian border, stands a large, proud, rose- colored hotel. deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. lately it has become a summer resort of notable and fashionable people; a decade a... |
gutenberg_net_au_fsf_PAT-HOBBY.txt | The Pat Hobby Stories | it was christmas eve in the studio. by eleven o'clock in the morning, santa claus had called on most of the huge population according to each one's deserts.
sumptuous gifts from producers to stars, and from agents to producers arrived at offices and studio bungalows: on every stage one heard of the roguish gifts of cas... |
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