The Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 creator text nyu London Arcturus 2021 2010 monographic eng

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384 pages : 20 cm 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." F. Scott Fitzgerald. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1922. Inheritance and succession Fiction Rich people Fiction Married people Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Avarice Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction United States Social conditions 1918-1932 Fiction PS3511.I9 B4 813.52 9780307476357 (pbk.) 9781789506686 2011456832 DLC 111024 20250328103227.0 6207 eng