Word: first-person
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Andre, the first-person hero, of mixed Jewish and French blood, has been educated in England, lives in Paris, but goes to the U. S. to visit his younger brother, who has married a rich Manhattanite and become a respectable U. S. broker. Andre himself has enough money to do nothing, and lives according to his income. But he has Bohemian tastes and his sister-in-law runs him ragged, bores him to death with an interminable succession of highly respectable entertainments. One afternoon Andre, left unguarded for a few minutes, spies a temptingly good and quite empty...
Though most are not autobiographical in tone, these stories are told by a first-person narrator. Some of them...