Download or read book The Rich Boy written by Kylie Scott and published by Kylie Scott LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m the type of girl who’s given up on fairy tales. So when Beck – the hot new busboy at work – starts flirting with me, I know better than to get my hopes up. Happily ever afters aren’t for the average. I learned that the hard way. But how can I be expected to resist a man who can quote Austen, loves making me laugh, and seems to be everything hot and good in this world? Only there’s so much more to him than that. Billionaire playboy? Check. Troubled soul? Check. The owner of my heart, the man I’ve moved halfway across the country to be with, who’s laying the world at my feet in order to convince me to never leave? Check. Check. Check. But nobody does complicated like the one percent. This is not your everyday rags-to-riches, knight-in-shining armor whisking the poor girl off her feet kind of story. No, this is much messier. “Rich Boy takes you on a literal ride! Funny. Angsty. There's mean rich people and people you root for. It's a definite recommend from me! –Tijan, New York Times bestselling author “Rich Boy was witty, exciting and had the most intense slow burn romance I’ve read in a long time. The complexity of the characters was refreshing and made me wish for more!”—Audrey Carlan, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Download or read book The Rich Boy written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very wealthy are different from the rest of us, and so is Anson. From a young age, he learned to speak in an almost British way; his words and sentences are crisp and clear. The first time he learned that his life was superior was when he realised that the parents of his friends were vaguely excited about their children playing with Anson and his siblings. Despite being born with a proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, Anson grew up to be an egoistic and lonely man. Problems arise in Anson's life when he falls in love with Paula, a woman who is as rich as himself. ‘The Rich Boy’ is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Paris while waiting for ‘The Great Gatsby’ to be published. Many of the themes that would be read in 'Gatsby' are found in this short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and author of the classics ‘Tender is the Night’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’. His writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and wife Zelda Fitzgerald were in the centre of.

Download or read book The Rich Boy written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Rich Boy« is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1926. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].

Download or read book The Rich Boy written by Leah Vale and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's The Biggest Story Never Told If Madeline Monroe can dig up enough dirt on the mysterious "Lost Millionaires," now claiming to be real McCoys, it would prove once and for all that she's a serious reporter and not just another pretty face. Unfortunately, one of the McCoys is an old flame, so getting her career on the fast track could mean getting burned again. Alexander McCoy is tempted to turn to Madeline the way he did before. But the awful scandal he's uncovered has to stay secret, and the glamorous blonde is the last person he can confide in—because she was the first to teach him about

Download or read book An F Scott Fitzgerald Encyclopedia written by Robert L. Gale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most challenging authors of American literature. He is known internationally as the author of The Great Gatsby (1925), a twentieth-century literary classic studied by high school students and scholars alike. But Fitzgerald was an amazingly productive writer despite numerous personal and professional difficulties. From the beginning of his literary career with the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920 to his death in 1940, he wrote 5 novels, roughly 180 short stories, numerous essays and reviews, much poetry, several plays, and some film scripts. Even when he wrote hastily and perhaps bleary-eyed, his works almost always exhibit the flashes of his genius. He is celebrated as a symbol of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, but beneath all the glitter for which his prose is famous, he warns of the dangers of personal recklessness and praises the redemptive power of love. Through hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries, this reference book provides complete coverage of Fitzgerald's life and writings. The volume begins with a chronology that traces his rise from obscurity to fame, his struggles with alcoholism, and his eventual financial downfall. The entries that follow give a full and detailed picture of Fitzgerald and his work. They present the essential action in Fitzgerald's novels, short stories, plays, and poems; identify all named fictional characters and indicate their significance; and give brief biographical information for Fitzgerald's family members, friends, and professional associates. Many of the entries include bibliographies which emphasize criticism published after 1990, and the volume closes with a general bibliography of the most important broad studies of Fitzgerald and his works. A thorough index and extensive cross references provide additional access to the wealth of information in this reference book and help make it a useful tool for a wide range of users.

Download or read book The Sparsholt Affair written by Alan Hollinghurst and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the handsome, athletic, and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. Spanning three generations, The Sparsholt Affair plumbs the ways the friendship between these two men will influence their lives—and the lives of others’—for decades to come. Richly observed and emotionally charged, this is a dazzling novel of fathers and sons, of family and legacy, and of the longing for permanence amid life’s inevitable transience.

Download or read book The Rich Boy written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rich Boy" is a short story about Anson Hunter, a very affluent young man. Anson was born rich and has always enjoyed a life of privilege, including being tutored by a British nanny in the hopes that her accent and manner of speaking might rub off on him.At its core, the story is really about Anson's quest to discover and nurture true love. Although he has no difficulty finding female companionship, Anson somewhat cynically wonders if he will ever have any luck finding a woman who loves him for something other than his money and prestige. At the same time, however, Anson is conflicted, because he isn't sure he can find a woman who fits that bill and is his equal in social standing. This is of great importance to Anson, because--as Fitzgerald writes--the ultra rich are quite different from most people:They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are. . . . Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are.Surrounded by the wealthy and elite, Anson is convinced that one can tell whether someone is well-off--and thus, in his mind, superior--just by looking at them. While in the Navy, Anson meets Paula, a beautiful woman who is both wealthy and seems sincere in her feelings for Anson, though his feelings toward her appear more uncertain. They are engaged soon after, but Anson develops a terrible alcohol problem, leaving his relationship with Paula fraught and difficult. On one occasion, he becomes so drunk at a party with Paula's family that she decides to put the engagement on the back burner for a while.While Paula grows frustrated by Anson's instability and increasing dependence on alcohol, Anson remains convinced that he and Paula have a future and that she will wait for him indefinitely. He is therefore devastated when Paula sends him a telegram informing him of her engagement and upcoming wedding to another man. Anson realizes he has lost the only woman who ever truly understood and loved him. In his reckless despair, he begins a superficial tryst with a woman named Dolly, who is not known for her discretion. Anson treats Dolly cruelly and they both attempt to make each other jealous, though Anson always gets the upper hand in the end. In the end, Anson, consumed by his memories of Paula, is unable to consumate his relationship with Dolly and rejects her, telling her that he doesn't love her. Soon after, Dolly marries someone else.Anson, believing he has given up his one chance at true love, takes up a new hobby: counseling married couples about their relationships. He claims to live vicariously through these "happy marriages." To no great surprise, Anson's predilection for providing his unsolicited insight into other people's problems does not endear him to his friends and relatives. This is especially true when he learns of his Aunt Edna's affair with a young man named Cary Sloane. Anson confronts Edna and Cary together and warns them that he will tell both his uncle and Cary's father about the affair. Sadly, Cary is found dead in the morning, likely of suicide. After Cary's death, Anson demonstrates no remorse, and neither his uncle nor aunt want anything to do with him.Anson feels very alone and falls into a depression. He later meets Paula by chance and discovers that she has married and is pregnant. Paula confesses that she was never really in love with him--only infatuated. She insists that Anson will never settle down, but he refuses to accept any personal responsibility for his inability to sustain a meaningful relationship. Soon after, Paula dies in childbirth, and Anson is clearly affected by this news. However, by the end of the novel, Anson is on board a ship, where he notices a beautiful woman. He introduces himself and they are soon having champagne together. Anson seems to be yet again headed down the road of eventual romantic disappointment.

Download or read book Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy written by Capt. W.E. Johns and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 1961-08-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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.

Download or read book Compulsory Military Training and Service hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs United States Senate July 3 5 10 11 and 12 1940 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Love Affairs and a Friendship written by Anne de Courcy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she barely saw her parents, Nancy rebelled against expectations and pursued a life in the arts. She sought the constant company of artists, writers, poets and painters, first in London's Soho and Mayfair, and then in the glamorous cafes of 1920s Paris. This is the remarkable story of Nancy's Paris life, filled with art, sex and alcohol. She became a muse to Wyndham Lewis, Constantin Brâncusi sculpted her, Man Ray photographed her and she played tennis with Ernest Hemingway. She had many love affairs, the most significant of which are included in this book: the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen, the French poet Louis Aragon and finally and controversially the black American pianist Henry Crowder, with whom she ran her printing press in Paris. She was also shaped by her lifelong friendship with George Moore, her mother's lover. This tempestuous tale of passion and intrigue is as much a portrait of twenties Paris as it is the story of an extraordinary woman who defined her age.

Download or read book The Museum of Innocence written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance. Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul. 'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times

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Download or read book Extending Jurisdiction of Military Trubunals Hearings before the committee on Military Affairs United States Senate 65th Congress 2nd Session on S 4364 written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gatsby Affair written by Kendall Taylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre has been celebrated as one of the greatest of the 20th century. From the beginning, their relationship was a tumultuous one, in which the couple’s excesses were as widely known as their passion for each other. Despite their love, both Scott and Zelda engaged in flirtations that threatened to tear the couple apart. But none had a more profound impact on the two—and on Scott’s writing—as the liaison between Zelda and a French aviator, Edouard Jozan. Though other biographies have written of Jozan as one of Scott’s romantic rivals, accounts of the pilot’s effect on the couple have been superficial at best. In The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal That Shaped an American Classic, Kendall Taylor examines the dalliance between the southern belle and the French pilot from a fresh perspective. Drawing on conversations and correspondence with Jozan’s daughter, as well as materials from the Jozan family archives, Taylor sheds new light on this romantic triangle. More than just a casual fling, Zelda’s tryst with Edouard affected Scott as much as it did his wife—and ultimately influenced the author’s most famous creation, Jay Gatsby. Were it not for Zelda’s affair with the pilot, Scott’s novel might be less about betrayal and more about lost illusions. Exploring the private motives of these public figures, Taylor offers new explanations for their behavior. In addition to the love triangle that included Jozan, Taylor also delves into an earlier event in Zelda’s life—a sexual assault she suffered as a teenager—one that affected her future relationships. Both a literary study and a probing look at an iconic couple’s psychological makeup, The Gatsby Affair offers readers a bold interpretation of how one of America’s greatest novels was influenced.

Download or read book A Family Affair written by ReShonda Tate Billingsley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Dawson has watched her mother struggle her whole life. It's always been just the two of them, trying to make ends meet. When Olivia finally gets her big break - acceptance into Julliard - she chooses not to go because she would rather stay home to take care of her sickly mother and help pay the bills than chase after her dream. When Olivia's mother finds out about her abandoned dream, however, she reveals a shocking secret: Olivia's father is alive and doing very well for himself. Olivia decides to track down the man that might be her father, and confront him.

Download or read book Casual Affairs written by Maryellen V. Keefe and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays. In Casual Affairs, Maryellen V. Keefe vividly follows the life and career of Sally Benson, the New Yorker writer remembered by generations of moviegoers for Meet Me in St. Louis, the film that brought her family to life. Keefe traces Benson’s life from her childhood in St. Louis to marriage and motherhood to her award-winning fiction career and her success as a Hollywood screenwriter. Through the Jazz Age and into the 1930s and ’40s, Benson negotiated the transition from domesticity to the marketplace, becoming a full-fledged career woman while juggling her responsibilities as a wife and mother and indulging in several “quiet little affairs.” She succeeded early in a profession dominated by men, forging her way in a largely male world and winning the support and friendship of colleagues and editors. Benson established herself as a writer known for brutally honest portraits of middle-class women much like herself. “Impeccably researched and highly entertaining, this long-awaited biography of Sally Benson will find an important place in the history of American theater, film, and belles lettres.” — Donald Spoto, biographer of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, and others “Finally a biographer capable of bringing the brilliant and outrageous Sally Benson to life! And what a life it was for a woman, who began a long career writing for the New Yorker in 1929 and Hollywood in the forties. Keefe’s vivid account, which draws on family papers as it traces Benson’s personal and professional ups and downs, is also the story of a generation of young women eager to balance work and family. Readers who know Benson primarily from the film Meet Me in St. Louis will come to know her as a stylist every bit as talented as Dorothy Parker and with the same wonderful flair.” — Susan Goodman, author of Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925