Forging Ahead
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Forging Ahead was written in the year 1929 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Agea term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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Forging Ahead - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Forging Ahead
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Booklassic
2015
ISBN 978-963-522-052-6
Basil Duke Lee and Riply Buckner, Jr., sat on the Lees' front steps in the regretful gold of a late summer afternoon. Inside the house the telephone sang out with mysterious promise.
I thought you were going home,
Basil said.
I thought you were.
I am.
So am I.
Well, why don't you go, then?
Why don't you, then?
I am.
They laughed, ending with yawning gurgles that were not laughed out but sucked in. As the telephone rang again, Basil got to his feet.
I've got to study trig before dinner.
Are you honestly going to Yale this fall?
demanded Riply skeptically.
Yes.
Everybody says you're foolish to go at sixteen.
I'll be seventeen in September. So long. I'll call you up tonight.
Basil heard his mother at the upstairs telephone and he was immediately aware of distress in her voice.
Yes… . Isn't that awful, Everett! … Yes… . Oh-h my!
After a minute he gathered that it was only the usual worry about business and went on into the kitchen for refreshments. Returning, he met his mother hurrying downstairs. She was blinking rapidly and her hat was on backward—characteristic testimony to her excitement.
I've got to go over to your grandfather's.
What's the matter, mother?
Uncle Everett thinks we've lost a lot of money.
How much?
he asked, startled.
Twenty-two thousand dollars apiece. But we're not sure.
She went out.
Twenty-two thousand dollars!
he repeated in an awed whisper.
His ideas of money were vague and somewhat debonair, but he had noticed that at family dinners the immemorial discussion as to whether the Third Street block would be sold to the railroads had given place to anxious talk of Western Public Utilities. At half-past six his mother telephoned for him to have his dinner, and with growing uneasiness