A Night at the Fair
5/5
()
About this ebook
Fitzgerald's work has been adapted into films many times. His short story, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", was the basis for a 2008 film. "Tender Is the Night" was filmed in 1962, and made into a television miniseries in 1985. "The Beautiful and Damned" was filmed in 1922 and 2010. "The Great Gatsby" has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years: 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013 adaptations. In addition, Fitzgerald's own life from 1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in "Beloved Infidel".
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.
Read more from F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tales of the Jazz Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Gatsby (Pretty Books - Painted Editions) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll the Sad Young Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Gatsby Original Classic Edition: The Complete 1925 Text Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Short Stories and Essays, Volume 2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Gatsby (Deluxe Illustrated Edition) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collected Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Short Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life in Letters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Szerelem az éjszakában – Love in the night Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Greatest American Short Stories: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBabylon Revisited Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Gastby Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play, Volume 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to A Night at the Fair
Related ebooks
Benediction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5School for the Blind: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Return of the Soldier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camp Good Days and Special Times: The Legacy of Teddi Mervis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMargaret Fuller: A New American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Apple's Bruise: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Isle of Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Mutual Friend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life in the Iron Mills Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDriven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Schoolmaster and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore: Open and Degrees of Nakedness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCall It Horses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Understory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Relatively Painless Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLong Drive Home: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Grace, Fallen from Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dazzle Patterns Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jenny: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lonely Patient: Travels Through Illness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blank Canvas: The Amazing Story of a Woman Who Awoke from a Coma to a Life She Couldn’t Remember Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Trip Home: A Story of an Arkansas Farm Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen the Roll is Called a Pyonder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSix Months to Live: Learning from a Young Man with Cancer Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Heaven & Earth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for A Night at the Fair
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
A Night at the Fair - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Table Of Contents
A Night at the Fair
Copyright
A Night at the Fair
The two cities were separated only by a thin well-bridged river; their tails curling over the banks met and mingled, and at the juncture, under the jealous eye of each, lay, every fall, the State Fair. Because of this advantageous position, and because of the agricultural eminence of the state, the fair was one of the most magnificent in America. There were immense exhibits of grain, livestock and farming machinery; there were horse races and automobile races and, lately, aeroplanes that really left the ground; there was a tumultuous Midway with Coney Island thrillers to whirl you through space, and a whining, tinkling hoochie-coochie show. As a compromise between the serious and the trivial, a grand exhibition of fireworks, culminating in a representation of the Battle of Gettysburg, took place in the Grand Concourse every night.
At the late afternoon of a hot September day two boys of fifteen, somewhat replete with food and pop, and fatigued by eight hours of constant motion, issued from the Penny Arcade. The one with dark, handsome, eager eyes was, according to the cosmic inscription in his last year's Ancient History, Basil Duke Lee, Holly Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, North America, Western Hemisphere, the World, the Universe.
Though slightly shorter than his companion, he appeared taller, for he projected, so to speak, from short trousers, while Riply Buckner, Jr., had graduated into long ones the week before. This event, so simple and natural, was having a disrupting influence on the intimate friendship between them that had endured for several years.
During that time Basil, the imaginative member of the firm, had been the dominating