This Side of Paradise (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from 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 Encyclopoedia 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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