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The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited and Formatted for optional user enjoyment .- Our books are professionally produced and edited to provide the best reading experience- Our books contain unique illustrations that readers can enjoy - Check out our extensive range of top quality books on our site by searching Zellerz Publishing on Amazon Summary A WORTHY MAN AND HIS GIFTED SON Anthony drew as much consciousness of social security from being the grandson of Adam J. Patch as he would have had from tracing his line over the sea to the crusaders. This is inevitable; Virginians and Bostonians to the contrary notwithstanding, an aristocracy founded sheerly on money postulates wealth in the particular. Now Adam J. Patch, more familiarly known as "Cross Patch," left his father's farm in Tarrytown early in sixty-one to join a New York cavalry regiment. He came home from the war a major, charged into Wall Street, and amid much fuss, fume, applause, and ill will he gathered to himself some seventy-five million dollars. Here are some of Amazon’s Excellent Reviews - "One of my favorite authors ever! Speaks to your soul! The type of book you will keep forever and always go to ....“ Take advantage of our excellent books Get your kindle copy today!

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. As is typical of Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, money and decadence, and an acute social document. This thematic dualism is created and sustained by an overarching consistency of tone and delivery. There exists a rare balance between the protagonist's poetic commentary and immediate circumstances, and the wider context of the novel, creating two equally significant levels to the text that complement each other synergistically. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Café Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is also an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy.

The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy in Tender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

This edition incorporates an original introduction from Moorside Press, including: a brief biography, a critical discussion of Fitzgerald's place in literary history and a short contextual discussion of the book.Published in 1922 by Charles Scribner's, The Beautiful and Damned was Fitzgerald's second novel. The plot concerned the relationship between Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria, taking in an element of Patch's army service, and Gloria's alcoholism. If there is a theme, it's concerned with creating a purpose in life besides the more selfish obsessions such as money and hedonism. That the Patch's don't find such a purpose gives a sufficient clue to their fate.There's more than a whiff of the autobiographical about the novel, but in dealing with the Jazz Age as a theme (of which Fitzgerald was a constituent part), it takes in a more social element. Despite not being received on quite the level as his first novel, the initial print run of twenty thousand was extended to produce a first edition totalling some fifty thousand.

The Beautiful and Damned is the masterpiece of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and a meditation on the moral decadence that caught on a good part of the young and beautiful New York society during the Jazz Age. First published in 1922, it tells the story of Anthony Patch, an early XX century socialite and heir to a tycoon's fortune whose only purpose seems to be to wait for his inheritance, and of his relationship with Gloria, a woman whose only aspiration seems to be to catch her perfect husband.

The second novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned follows the lives of two young people - the inheritance-anticipating Anthony and the attractive but indolent heartbreaker Gloria. Following their exploits before, during and after World War One, The Beautiful and Damned investigates the mental states and behavioural habits of both protagonists. The pair both reflect on their past excessively, idolising it disproportionately against their perceptions of the present. The novel is reflects accurately the author's relationship with his wife Zelda: the dynamics between Anthony and Gloria amid the lively upheavals and party atmosphere of the American Jazz Age give the novel a colourful air which strongly mirrors the lives of the Fitzgeralds, whose reputation for leisurely behaviour and partying was itself emblematic of the lively culture of the 1920s. Symbolic of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's preferred topics of youthful verve and the inevitable declines that arrive with aging, The Beautiful and Damned established many of the themes which would find prominence throughout Fitzgerald's life in both his short and long form fiction. Much of this novel is adapted from his wife Zelda's diaries - a fact she alternatively joked about and resented.

The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.