The Beautiful and Damned Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307476359 ISBN-13: 9780307476357 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2011456832 |
Lexile Measure: 1120 |
Series: Vintage Classics |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.19" W x 8" (0.70 lbs) 400 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 32372 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master stroke--The Great Gatsby--that would follow, and marks a key moment in the writer's career. Would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch embody the corrupt high society of 1920s New York: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a large fortune, they begin their married life by living well beyond their means. Their days are marked by endless drinking, dancing, luxury, and play. But when the expected inheritance is withheld, their lives become consumed with the pursuit of wealth, and their alliance begins to fall apart. Inspired in part by Fitzgerald's own tumultuous union with his wife Zelda, hauntingly rendered and keenly observed, these characters evoke a vivid portrait of a lost world: a city steeped in vice, a society without direction, and the rootless and decadent generation that inhabited it. |