The beautiful and damned
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott)
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. 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 emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at on…
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- Full title :The beautiful and damned / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; introduction by Hortense Calisher.
Summary
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. 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 emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, marriage, and money, and an acute social document.
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- Publication Date:2002.
- Edition:2002 Modern Library pbk. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Modern Library
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 386 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0307779211, 9780307779212, 9780307414908, 0307414906
- oclc:on1013726469
- LC Classification:PS3511.I9
- Dewey Decimal:813/.52
Table of Contents
Introduction / Hortense Calisher -- Anthony Patch -- Portrait of a Siren -- The Connoisseur of Kisses -- The Radiant Hour -- Symposium -- The Broken Lute -- A Matter of Civilization -- A Matter of Aesthetics -- No Matter!
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