Фрэнсис Фицджеральд (Francis Fitzgerald)

Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд (Francis Scott Fitzgerald) (1896 год - 1940 год) - американский писатель. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд родился 24 сентября 1896 г. в городе Сент-Пол, штат Миннесота. Учился в Принстонском университете, но учёбу не окончил. В 1917 году Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд был призван в армию, но так никогда и не участвовал в военных действиях за границей. Вместо этого, Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд посвятил всё своё время работе над первым романом «По эту сторону рая». В тот же год Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд женился на Зельде Сейр. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд умер от сердечного приступа 21 декабря 1940 г. в Голливуде. Подробнее...

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... built the Squares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of Bestwood, and then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Row, they erected the Bottoms.

    The Bottoms consisted of six blocks of miners' dwellings, two rows of three, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a block. This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp slope from Bestwood, and looked out, from the attic windows at least, on the slow climb of the valley towards Selby.

    The houses themselves were substantial and very decent. One could walk all round, seeing little front gardens with auriculas and saxifrage in the shadow of the bottom block, sweet-williams and pinks in the sunny top block; seeing neat front windows, little porches, little privet hedges, and dormer windows for the attics. But that was outside; that was the view on to the uninhabited parlours of all the colliers' wives. The dwelling-room, the kitchen, was at the back of the house, facing inward between the blocks, looking at a scrubby back garden, and then at the ash-pits. And between the rows, between the long lines of ash-pits, went the alley, where the children played and the women gossiped and the men smoked. So, the actual conditions of living in the Bottoms, that was so well built and that looked so nice, were quite unsavoury because people must live in the kitchen, and the kitchens opened on to that nasty alley of ash-pits.

    Mrs. Morel was not anxious to move into the Bottoms, which was already twelve years old and on the downward path, when she descended to it from Bestwood. But it was the best she could do. Moreover, she had an end house in one of the top blocks, and thus had only one neighbour; on the other side an extra strip of garden. And, having an end house, she enjoyed a kind of aristocracy among the other women of the "between" houses, because her rent was five shillings and sixpence instead of five shillings a week. But this superiority in station was not much consolation to Mrs...

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