THE BEAUTIFUL
AND DAMNED
BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
1922
Novels
THE LAST TYCOON(Unfinished)With a foreword by Edmund Wilsonand notes by the author
TENDER IS THE NIGHT
THE GREAT GATSBY
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
Stories
THE PAT HOBBY STORIESWith an introduction by Arnold Gingrich
TAPS AT REVEILLE
SIX TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE AND OTHER STORIESWith an introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan
FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERSWith an introduction by Arthur Mizener
THE STORIES OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALDA selection of 28 stories, withan introduction by Malcolm Cowley
Stories and Essays
AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHORWith an introduction and notesby Arthur Mizener
THE FITZGERALD READER: A SelectionEdited and with an introductionby Arthur Mizener
—ANTHONY PATCH
TO
SHANE LESLIE, GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
AND MAXWELL PERKINS
IN APPRECIATION OF MUCH LITERARY HELP
AND ENCOURAGEMENT
CONTENTS
| BOOK ONE | |
| I. | ANTHONY PATCH |
| II. | PORTRAIT OF A SIREN |
| III. | THE CONNOISSEUR OF KISSES |
| BOOK TWO | |
| I. | THE RADIANT HOUR |
| II. | SYMPOSIUM |
| III. | THE BROKEN LUTE |
| BOOK THREE | |
| I. | A MATTER OF CIVILIZATION |
| II. | A MATTER OF AESTHETICS |
| III. | NO MATTER! |
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I
ANTHONY PATCH
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gonesince irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically atleast, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, theultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!"—yetat the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than theconscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether heis not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinnessglistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, theseoccasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himselfrather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjustedto his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one elsehe knows.
This was his healthy state and it made him cheerfu