The Beautiful And Damned
Introduction by Hortense Calisher Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener 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 imagina…
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- Full title :The Beautiful And Damned / F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Parini and Prigozy, Ruth.
Summary
Introduction by Hortense Calisher Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener 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. As Hortense Calisher observes in her Introduction, "Though Fitzgerald can entrance with stories so joyfully youthful they appear to be safe-when he cuts himself, you will bleed." Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Signet
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
Notes
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed September 08, 2015).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780698196681, 0698196686
- oclc:ocn946536464
- LC Classification:PS3511.I9
- Dewey Decimal:813.52
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