Also published as: The Beautiful and the Damned

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Year: 1922 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic, Romance Purchase/reserch links: OpenLibrary Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781500392413 9781557420589 1500392413 1557420580

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche and New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition, The Beautiful and Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. Similar books: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Persuasion by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Howards End by E. M. Forster Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte Villette by Charlotte Bronte Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe