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The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery.
Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.
Part of ten-book collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction now at £39.95
Part of The Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection now at 62.42
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He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.
The New York Times
