The Beautiful and Damned (AmazonClassics Edition) - Couverture souple

Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1542049555 ISBN 13 : 9781542049559

Editeur : AmazonClassics, 2017

Synopsis

Anthony Patch is the idle heir to a vast fortune. His wife, Gloria, dazzles society with her good looks. Satisfied by privilege and beauty alone, they are beholden only to the “magnificent attitude of not giving a damn.” When Anthony’s inheritance is withheld, it causes an irreparable rift in their marriage, threatening their fragile paradise. Oblivious to their future, he and Gloria have little left to define themselves but their ever-receding pasts.

A bitter critique of the empty pleasures of post–World War I Café Society, The Beautiful and Damned endures not only as a cautionary tale but as a social artifact of the decadent Roaring Twenties.

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Revised edition: Previously published as The Beautiful and Damned, this edition of The Beautiful and Damned (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940), an American novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter, was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota; was educated at preparatory school in New Jersey; and briefly attended Princeton University, where he nurtured his love of writing. Fitzgerald launched an advertising career in New York City and began selling short stories, but it was his excursions to Europe, notably Paris, that fueled his literary ambitions.

Fitzgerald’s successful debut novel, This Side of Paradise, was followed by The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. Lured to Hollywood with the promise of a more lucrative career as a Hollywood screenwriter, Fitzgerald was inspired to write The Last Tycoon, which was unfinished at the time of his death and published posthumously.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AmazonClassics
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1542049555
• ISBN 13: 9781542049559
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 415
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Amazon Publishing, Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.; https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com/work-with-us.html; ; 38, avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg