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The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Paperback

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9791043136825
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 484
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Anthony Patch, the grandson of a wealthy businessman, spends his youth in idle relaxation expecting to inherit his grandfather's fortune. But when he meets Gloria, a vibrant young flapper, the two feel an irresistible attraction and quickly get married despite their clashing personalities.The two embark on a lifestyle of Jazz Age living: hard partying, profligate spending, and generally living the high life. But Anthony's prohibitionist grandfather soon finds out and disowns Anthony, sending their lifestyle crashing down from its former heights to intolerable indignity.Like Fitzgerald's previous novel, This Side of Paradise, and his next novel, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned documents the life of the idle rich in America's Jazz Age. Both Anthony and Gloria's characters explore the problem of what one is left to do when one has no other purpose in life. Because Anthony's expecting a large inheritance, his ambition is muzzled and he feels no need to embark on a career or participate in the betterment of society. Gloria's main purpose in life was to find a husband; once she's done that, what's left except spending money and partying?

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