Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other stories
Penguin modern classics, 1967. godine na 238. strana.

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`The Diamond as Big as the Ritz` is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald`s 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915.

Orson Welles adapted the story into a radio play in 1945 and another version was presented three times on the program Escape between 1947 and 1949.

A teleplay version was broadcast on Kraft Theatre in 1955. The story`s sisters, Kismine and Jasmine, were portrayed by Lee Remick and Elizabeth Montgomery, who were unknowns of 20 and 22 at the time.

Mickey Mouse no. 47 (Apr./May 1956) contains a retelling of Fitzgerald`s story under the title `The Mystery of Diamond Mountain`, scripted by William F. Nolan and Charles Beaumont and illustrated by Paul Murry.

Plot:
John T. Unger, a teenager from the Mississippi River town of Hades, is sent to a private boarding school near Boston. During the summer he visits the homes of his classmates, the majority of whom are from wealthy families.

In the middle of his sophomore year, a young man named Percy Washington is placed in Unger`s dorm. He rarely speaks, and when he does, it is only to Unger. Percy invites Unger to his home for the summer, the location of which he only states as being `in the West`. Unger accepts.

During the train ride Percy boasts that his father is `by far the richest man in the world`, and, when challenged by Unger, boasts that his father `has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.`

Unger later learns that he is in Montana, in the `only five square miles of land in the country that`s never been surveyed,` and Percy`s boasts turn out to be true.

Percy`s ancestry traces back to both George Washington and Lord Baltimore. His grandfather, Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, decided to leave Virginia and head west with his slaves to enter the sheep and cattle ranching business. However, on his claim he discovered not only a diamond mine, but a mountain consisting of one solid diamond.