The Beautiful and the Damned
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"Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) followed F. Scott Fitzgerald's critically acclaimed first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) and cinched his place as a noted author of his time. The plot centers on Anthony, a socialite awaiting an inheritance and his marriage to Gloria, a beauty partying to the point of alcoholism. Their fading infatuation and troubled marriage evoke the themes of class, wealth, and greed for which Fitzgerald is famous. The work, likely based on the author's marriage to socialite Zelda, is essential for those who love Fitzgerald, the Jazz Age, and historical fiction.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.
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