The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth.
But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned.
Author Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a 'generation'. . . he might have interpreted and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'
Format: Paperback | 364 pages
Dimensions (cm): 18 x 11.1 x 2.1 | 230g
Publication Date: 28 Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0141195002
ISBN13: 9780141195001
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and creasing, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with some minor creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.