The beautiful and damned
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-19402019
Book
In this follow-up to his tremendously successful first novel, This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald again recaptures the Jazz Age's darker side as well as its excitement and joie de vivre. The Beautiful and Damned traces the meteoric path of two glittering young socialites. Building their marriage on the shaky foundation of an expected inheritance, they devote themselves to hedonistic pursuits that lead to moral and financial bankruptcy. The characters' self-indulgence and mutual destruction anticipated the tragic lives of Scott and his flapper wife, Zelda. The Fitzgeralds regarded the world as a stage and their lives as performances, and their glamorous doings became as well-known as any of Scott's books. In an eerie foreshadowing of the real-life couple's rapid descent into ruin, this lyric, compulsively readable narrative examines the perishable nature of dreams in the face of reality--a theme scrutinized with profound effect in the book's esteemed successor, The Great Gatsby.
Main title:
The beautiful and damned / F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Edition:
Dover edition.
Imprint:
Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2019.©2019
Collation:
v, 297 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
"This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1922 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. A new note has been specially prepared for this edition"--Title page verso.
ISBN:
9780486832388 (pbk)9780486832388 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.52
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
645158
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | FITZ | On loan - Due: 14 Jul 2026 |
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | FITZ | Available |