The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. More popular than the great gatsby book, this novel portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society.
Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgerald’s intense romantic imagination and demonstrates an increased technical and ...
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But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned.
Fitzgerald's second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy....
" Fitzgerald's career would be brought to a sudden end with his untimely death in 1940, but his renown as an American writer would grow posthumously. This edition is based on Fitzgerald's original, 1922, version.
As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, materialistic and experience significant disruptions in respect to classism, marriage, and intimacy .
The novel addresses a theme common to Fitzgerald's work, that being the moral decline and directionless lethargy that had consumed the American upper class during the early part of the 20th century.
As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald.
The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, ...
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, his relationship with his wife, Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism.
The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, ...
The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune.
But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert.
But The Beautiful and Damned, with its evocative parallels to his relationship with Zelda and its prescient portrait of a man tumbling from dazzling heights to gloomy depths, is arguably his most personal.
Married life of a young wealthy couple, of the '20's.
This tremendous book comes with the following great features: - Complete original text of "The Beautiful and Damned"; - Free audiobook access; - BONUS - F. Scott Fitzgerald's Influence - Film and TV adaptations; - BONUS - Most Famous Quotes ...
... Sixteen Modern American Authors : A Survey of Research and Criticism ( Durham , NC , 1974 ) , 277–321 . - F. Scott Fitzgerald ' , in Jackson R. Bryer ( ed . ) , Sixteen Modern American Authors . Vol . 2 , A Survey of Research and ...
This scathingly ironic tale tragically mirrored the relationship of Fitzgerald and his own wife, Zelda-from its giddy romantic beginning to its alcohol-fueled demise.