BOOK ONE
The Romantic Egotist
CHAPTER 2
Spires and Gargoyles
AT FIRST Amory noticed only the wealth of sunshine creeping across the long, green swards, dancing on the leaded window-panes, and swimming around the tops of spires and towers and … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
BOOK TWO
The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 5
The Egotist Becomes a Personage
“A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And … Read the rest
BOOK TWO
The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 4
The Supercilious Sacrifice
ATLANTIC CITY. Amory paced the board walk at day’s end, lulled by the everlasting surge of changing waves, smelling the half-mournful odor of the salt breeze. The sea, … Read the rest
BOOK TWO
The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 3
Young Irony
FOR YEARS AFTERWARD when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The … Read the rest
BOOK TWO
The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 2
Experiments in Convalescence
THE KNICKERBOCKER BAR, beamed upon by Maxfield Parrish’s jovial, colorful “Old King Cole,” was well crowded. Amory stopped in the entrance and looked at his wrist-watch; he wanted … Read the rest
BOOK TWO
The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 1
The Dibutante
The time is February. The place is a large, dainty bedroom in the Connage house on Sixty-eighth Street, New York. A girl’s room: pink walls and curtains and a … Read the rest
BOOK ONE
The Romantic Egotist
CHAPTER 4
Narcissus Off Duty
DURING Princeton’s transition period, that is, during Amory’s last two years there, while he saw it change and broaden and live up to its Gothic beauty by better means than … Read the rest