The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Alan Margolies

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel, is heavily based on his own troubled marriage as he describes the moral, physical, and financial decline of a beautiful and gifted couple. Anthony and Gloria Patch seem made for each other, and their idyllic relationship is enhanced by their expectations of inheriting Anthony's grandfather's millions. As they live their idle dissatisfied lives, waiting for the money to come their way, Gloria's selfishness and Anthony's alcoholism gradually and irrevocably corrode their feelings for each other. Fitzgerald's second novel is a scathing critique of the moneyed class to which he aspired but that was always, tantalizingly, just out of his reach. One of his saddest, THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED is also one of his most beautifully written books.

Editions of The Beautiful and Damned

ISBN 9780786299386	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Chivers North Amer	Date 1994	Price £35.00
ISBN 9780451526649	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher New Amer Library Classics	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780786118670	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2000	Price $17.95	As New Tapes a new. Some light shelfwear to plastic case
ISBN 9780684852768	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Scribner	Date 1999	Price $10.56	REMAINDER
ISBN 9780375759642	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Modern Library	Date 2002	Price $1.00	Acceptable
ISBN 9780824059569	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Taylor & Francis	Date 1990	Price None Available
ISBN 9780141180878	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1998	Price $2.00	Good
ISBN 9780684801551	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1995	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780553214703	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Bantam Classic & Loveswept	Date 1998	Price $3.96
ISBN 9780684717586	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1977	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780743451505	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Pocket Classics	Date 2002	Price $3.50	Very Good
ISBN 9780745127095	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Chivers Audio Books	Date 1994	Price None Available
ISBN 9780735100756	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Replica Books	Date 2001	Price $41.95	New
ISBN 9780786198153	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2000	Price $128.74	New
ISBN 9780671001254	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Pocket Books	Date 1996	Price $1.75	Very good
ISBN 9780786194148	Binding/Format MP3 CD	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2001	Price $21.23	New
ISBN 9780192832641	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Oxford Univ Pr	Date 1998	Price $1.94	Very Good

Publisher Notes

Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a savage and haunting satire of the young, rootless post-war generation who live intent only on the pursuit of wealth and decadent pleasure. Anthony Patch's marriage to the beautiful but selfish Gloria is idyllic at first but the union slowly disintegrates as reality sets in and their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades, and Anthony's drinking takes its toll. Charting the corrosive attraction of wealth and its malign influence, The Beautiful and Damned is also a vivid portrait of early twentieth-century New York and the sights and sounds of the city's burgeoning night life.

First Line

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.

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