The Beautiful and Damned (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511905084)

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.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 1511905085
ISBN-13: 9781511905084
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2015
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.29d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.7
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32372 / Beautiful and Damned