Head and Shoulders
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read “Head and Shoulders” by F. Scott Fitzgerald in English, Russian, French and German in Bibliott on your phone and tablet.
Languages: English, RU, French, German
Genre: Romance, Satire, Short story
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A teenage academic prodigy falls for a Broadway chorus girl in a Jazz Age comedy of brains, beauty, and mismatched worlds.
Characters
- Horace Tarbox — hero: Teenage philosophy prodigy and Yale student, unnervingly detached from worldly life.
- Marcia Meadow — heroine: Sharp-witted Broadway chorus girl whose speaking voice sounds like a harp.
- Charlie Moon — catalyst: Horace's cousin and Yale senior who arranges the first meeting between Horace and Marcia.
- Anton Laurier — idol: French realist philosopher and Horace's intellectual idol, founder of a philosophical school.