The Rich Boy
Title | The Rich Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2021-08-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3985949700 |
The Rich Boy - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Fitzgerald's short story "The Rich Boy" (like his novel The Great Gatsby) utilizes an outside narrator to tell the story of a wealthy protagonist in a sympathetic but still somewhat distanced way. Here the protagonist is Anson Hunter, a well-to-do young New Yorker, who would seem to have the whole world ahead of him and the streets paved in gold. By his early twenties, he has found his ideal woman as well: the exquisite -- and very rich -- Paula Legendre. On the surface, Paula would not seem to be the type of girl that would exert such a pull on Anson. Anson seems to have a lot of oats to sow, and Fitzgerald describes Paula as being "conservative and rather proper." But he is, nonetheless, obsessed by her, not because she represents the money he wants -- after all, he already has enough of his own -- but because she represents the social system that justifies his existence. In his world, responsible older men (like his uncle Robert) hold the reins of government and business; chaste and proper women (like Paula and her mother) maintain the rules of propriety and etiquette; and, until they get old enough to assume the mantle of responsible older manhood, playboys like Anson play. That is all Anson thinks he is doing right now. Just as he sees in himself the undeveloped kernel of a future leader, he sees in Paula the kernel of a future society matron. He thinks they would make a good pair. What he doesn't realize, however, is that his virtually unlimited wealth has within it the power to corrupt him, and it's already doing a good job. His first problem is that he sees himself as superior. He carries himself that way; Fitzgerald says that ". . . He had a confident charm and a certain brusque style, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. . . . Anson accepted without reservation the world of high finance and high extravagance, of divorce and dissipation, of snobbery and of privilege."
The Rich Boy
Title | The Rich Boy PDF eBook |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | East West Studio |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2018-04-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Rich Boy is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection All the Sad Young Men. The Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli describes the story as "an extension of The Great Gatsby, enlarging the examination of the effects of wealth on character.
Detroit Rich Boys
Title | Detroit Rich Boys PDF eBook |
Author | Muscles |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2011-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1450296459 |
"Detroit Rich Boys" tells the story of James Mussellistine, better known as Muscles to his friends, a young teenager from the west side of Detroit. He ended up being part of the original Puritan Avenue gang known as the PAs. Although he was raised in a middle-class neighborhood off Six Mile Road, the young gangster couldn't stop hanging out with the likes of Niddy and Roni, two friends from across Puritan Road. When Muscles and his friends enroll in Mumford, Detroit's most volatile school, the roller-coaster lifestyle of gangbanging rolls from the school strait to the streets. The Puritan Gang was the poorest gang in the school, and their numbers were weak compared to their legendary rivals, the Six, Seven, Eight Mile Gangs. Even so, Mumford's Puritan leaders, the PAs, arose from virtual anonymity to become one of the most dangerous neighborhood gangs in Detroit history. "Once upon a time Detroit was once considered the promise land for black people in America. By the1980s, however, Detroit had become the land of bondage, where people were enslaved by drugs, poverty, and violence. From the Lunatic Assassins and the 8 mile Sconies to the Black Killers and the PAs. The streets of the Westside are all here." Al Profit Murder City
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy
Title | Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Capt. W.E. Johns |
Publisher | Alien Ebooks |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 1961-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1667629239 |
‘This is the queerest sort of kidnapping case I’ve ever run into,’ vowed Eddie Ross, U.S. member of Interpol, who himself had brought this full-sized headache across the Atlantic for Biggles to solve. In their quest for kidnapper Cornelli and his hostage Carlo Salvatore, Biggles & Co. are forced to maintain an aerial shuttle service between London and Scotland, but it was by the turbulent waters of a Highland salmon river that the last grim gun battle took place.
Phil Sidney, Or, A Rich Boy's Trials
Title | Phil Sidney, Or, A Rich Boy's Trials PDF eBook |
Author | Washington Wells Hooper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Children's stories |
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The Rich Boy
Title | The Rich Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2018-04-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781983888496 |
The Rich Boy
The Rick Boy
Title | The Rick Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Damont L. Diggs |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 2020-01-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1794872728 |
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