TY - BOOK AU - Fitzgerald,F.Scott TI - The beautiful and damned T2 - Vintage classics SN - 9780307476357 (pbk.) AV - PS3511.I9 B4 U1 - 813.52 PY - 2021/// CY - London : PB - Arcturus, KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Fiction KW - Rich people KW - Married people KW - Avarice KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - 1918-1932 N1 - Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1922 N2 - 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." ER -