The Beautiful and Damned Paperback / softback
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Alan (Professor of English, Professor of English, John Jay College, CUNY) Margolies
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
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`The victor belongs to the spoils.' Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect.
Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades and Anthony's drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes, `an abiding distrust,an animosity, toward the leisure class - not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smouldering hatred of a peasant'.
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- Publication Date:26/03/2009
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2009
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- ISBN:9780199539109