»The Sensible Thing«

»The Sensible Thing«

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 9180946194

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» ›The Sensible Thing‹ « is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1924. 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].


The Sensible Thing

The Sensible Thing

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2023-02-02

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 8726596350

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This short story follows the loveable character of George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer who sells insurance to pay the bills. George falls in love with the mysterious Jonquill Cary. When he gets a letter from her, he quits his job so he can go to Tennessee to visit her and convince her about their relationship. However, when he arrives, he finds Jonquill with two other younger boys and they then break up. The story picks up again a year later, to find George hugely successful and notably well-dressed. When Jonquill reunites with George, it is hard to know if things have changed for the couple... ́The Sensible Thing ́ is the ideal read for fans of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and the author of the classics ‘Tender is the Night’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’, with the latter having been made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. Skillfully capturing the prosperity of post-World War One America, his writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald were at the centre of.


Sensible Shoes

Sensible Shoes

Author: Sharon Garlough Brown

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-02-27

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0830843051

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Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation.


The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author: Kirk Curnutt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03-08

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1139462474

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Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda - continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his image as the poet laureate of the 1920s, he was first and foremost a great writer with a gift for fluid, elegant prose. This introduction reminds readers why Fitzgerald deserves his preeminent place in literary history. It discusses not only his best-known works, The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), but the full scope of his output, including his other novels and his short stories. This book introduces new readers and students of Fitzgerald to his trademark themes, his memorable characters, his significant plots, the literary modes and genres from which he borrowed, and his inimitable style.


The Mind Thing

The Mind Thing

Author: Fredric Brown

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0575102632

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"HE" was really an "IT" He was incapable of love or mercy, or hate. And he certainly never felt the lack. He was almost pure thought. He was just doing what he had to do - looking for the right body to play host to him. Once he found it and moved in, he would execute one of the most incredible plans ever conceived. He would be hailed as a hero on his own planet and... EARTH WOULD NEVER KNOW WHAT HIT IT!


This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1775414833

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This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.


In His Secret Life

In His Secret Life

Author: Mel Bossa

Publisher: JMS Books LLC

Published: 2018-05-26

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1634866444

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Allan has always tried to do the sensible thing. So when his sister Elsie became pregnant eight years ago and was ditched by her boyfriend, he stepped up to the plate. Since then, he's been his sister's support system and father figure to his niece. Allan's world is turned upside down when Elsie becomes engaged and he meets her fiancé's older brother, Davinder -- a beautiful, brooding artist with a thousand secrets in his eyes. But Davinder is a married man and father of two young boys. From the moment they meet, Allan and Davinder walk along the edge of their secret lives, never allowed to push open the gates. Though their love is a head-on collision, a meeting of the minds, a fusing of two lost souls, both men know that it is also -- and above all -- impossible.


Sensible Life

Sensible Life

Author: Emanuele Coccia

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0823267431

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We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible life. This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, theology, and politics. Coccia begins by defining the ontological status of images. Not just an internal modification of our consciousness, an image has an intermediate ontological status that differs from that of objects or subjects. The book’s second part explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion, and biological facts like growth and generation. Our life, Coccia argues, is the life of images.