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The Beautiful and Damned

Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
12 hours 32 minutes
ISBN
9781802562941
Published
2 February 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Jazz Age
  • Roaring Twenties
  • socialites
  • marriage
  • disillusionment
  • wealth
  • alcoholism
  • decay
  • ambition
  • emptiness

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the destructive marriage of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert, gilded-age socialites. As they await a vast inheritance, their lives dissolve into indolence, alcoholism, and bitter resentment. Their beauty and charm mask a profound emptiness, revealing the corrosive effects of wealth and aimless desire. The novel explores the fleeting nature of youth and the tragic consequences of a life without purpose.

Author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is most notable for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories.

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