Beautiful & Damned (P)

by Fitzgerald

• ISBN13: 9780020199700
• ISBN10: 0020199708
• Copyright: 2022-01-01
• Publisher: SS SCRIB COLLIER

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. 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."

Table of Contents

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!

A Brief Life of

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