The Beautiful and Damned
- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrator William Dufris
- Publisher Craig Black
- Publish Date 25 July 2011
- Run Time 13 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction.
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What to expect
Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting.
A devastating satire of reckless ambition and squandered talent, Fitzgerald's novel is also a shattering portrait of a marriage wasted by alcohol and wealth. It depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald embraced even as he attacked its false social values and shallow literary tastes. Lyrical, romantic, yet cruelly incisive, it signaled a new stage in Fitzgerald's career.
Critics Review
“The Jazz Age chronicler’s first great novel.”
“No one has written more elegiacally about America than F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
“If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
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