Table of Contents
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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”
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