This Side of Paradise

Contents Book One The Romantic Egotist Chapter 1 Amory, Son of Beatrice A Kiss for Amory Snapshots of the Young Egotist Code of the Young Egotist Preparatory to the Great Adventure The Egotist Down Incident of the Well-Meaning Professor Incident of the Wonderful Girl Heroic in General Tone The Philosophy of the Slicker Chapter 2 Spires and Gargoyles A Damp Symbolic Interlude Historical “Ha-Ha Hortense!” “Petting” Descriptive Isabelle Babes in the Woods Carnival Under the Arc-Light Crescendo! Chapter 3 The Egotist Considers The Superman Grows Careless Aftermath Financial First Appearance of the Term “Personage” The Devil In the Alley At the Window Chapter 4 Narcissus Off Duty Amory Writes a Poem Still Calm Clara St. Cecilia Amory is Resentful The End of Many Things Interlude May, 1917-February, 1919 Embarking at Night Book Two: The Education of a Personage Chapter 1 The Débutante Several Hours Later Kismet A Little Interlude Bitter Sweet Aquatic Incident Five Weeks Later Chapter 2 Experiments in Convalescence Still Alcoholic Amory on the Labor Question Temperature Normal Restlessness Tom the Censor Looking Backward Another Ending Chapter 3 Young Irony September The End of Summer A Poem That Eleanor Sent Amory Several Years Later A Poem Amory Sent to Eleanor and Which He Called “Summer Storm” Chapter 4 The Supercilious Sacrifice The Collapse of Several Pillars Chapter 5 The Egotist Becomes a Personage In the Drooping Hours Still Weeding Monsignor The Big Man with Goggles Amory Coins a Phrase Going Faster The Little Man Gets His “Out of the Fire, Out of the Little Room”