About this title: THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel, is heavily based on his own troubled marriage as he describes the moral, physical, and financial decline of a beautiful and gifted couple. Anthony and Gloria Patch seem made for each other, and their idyllic relationship is enhanced by their expectations of inheriting Anthony's ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780140082371ISBN:0140082379
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780140024142ISBN:014002414X
Description: Good. The cover is slightly creased. The edge of this book is slightly yellow. The spine is slightly ripped. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780140024142ISBN:014002414X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780140024142ISBN:014002414X
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1971. Paperback. Number of pages: 368. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY Corners bumped. Some pages foxed. Spine creased. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780140024142ISBN:014002414X
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1971. Paperback. Number of pages: 368. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8327207 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780140024142ISBN:014002414X
Description: Published by PENGUIN BOOKS LTD in 1971. Paperback. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #7848969 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780140024142ISBN:014002414X
Description: Published by PENGUIN BOOKS LTD in 1971. Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY #7770922 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780684717586ISBN:0684717581
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Red & white soft cover wit minimal wear. Binding solid & unbroken. No previous owner. 449 intact tight clean pages. An extremely nice copy. read more
Edition: 14th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780684717586ISBN:0684717581
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; small stain on rear cover; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine creased; small tear on bottom of spine hinge/ writing on front page; friends of the library stamp on front page/ several page tips creased; a few page edges slightly stained. read more
"As with all of Fitzgerald's books, I'm amazed at how timeless the characters are. Any of these people could be living today. It is also fun to read about an old New York that seems very familiar. My favorite passage, about fully jaded, hard drinking 30 something year olds:
As the conversation continued in stilted commas, Anthony wondered that to him and Bloeckman both this girl had once been the most stimulating, the most tonic personality they had ever known - and now the three sat like overoiled mahines, without conflict, without fear, without elation, heavily enamelled little figures secure beyond enjoyment in a world where death and war, dull emotion and noble savagery were covering a continent with the smoke of terror. In a moment he would call Tana and they would pour into themselves a gay and delicate poison which would restore them momentarily to the pleasurable excitement of childhood, when every face in a crowd had carried its suggestion of splendid and significant transactions taking place somewhere to some magnificent and illimitable purpose..."
"F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing is positively flawless. His prose is effortless, poetic. This book is phenomenal, beautiful, heart breaking. It makes you ache inside.
Altough sometimes slow moving, this is wonderful, haunting story. If you're a fan of Fitzgerald, this is a must read.
This is the story of the tumultuous marriage of Anthony and Gloria: two members of 'the idle rich' in the 1920s. Their affair is selfish, tragic and as we turn the last page we can finally see just how disillusioned they were by their own philosophy of life. Effortlessly, Fitzgerald shows us the irony of prohibition, the mockery of war, and the unavoidable loss of two people's faith in God, in life, in each other.
"In the feverish perambulations of her mind she prowled through the house of bleak unlighted rooms hunting for her mother. All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.""
"Well, there's a reason this is the Fitzgerald you've never heard of, but I still really enjoyed it. It's directionless and unsatisfying, but of course that's sort of the point. This one is on of the ones people think is just straight up about him and Zelda, and if so, I feel bad for both of them and neither of them. It's so searingly cruel, and, I have to believe, honest that I feel obligated to classify it as a great book, even when reading it made me feel terrible.
Two quotes I liked:
"He had been futile in longing to drift and dream; no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret"
"She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance - actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage."
If I read The Last Tycoon I will have read all of his novels. Satisfying!"
"In the shadow of The Great Gatsby (and recently the revival of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), much of Fitzgerald's other works are forgotten. The Beautiful and the Damned is perhaps less shocking than the supernatural or the violence contained in the other two books, but has in its the seeds of the idea of suburban distopia which would dominate American literature of the 50s and 60s and which still fascinates us today. The cause of the unhappiness of the protagonists is enfolded so deeply in the narrative and hides so much beneath the surface as to be barely perceptible not only to to the characters but, much more interestingly, to the reader."
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