The Beautiful and Damned
Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and the Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War I generation. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes--"an abiding distrust, and animosity toward the leisure class--not the conviction of a...
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Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and the Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War I generation. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes--"an abiding distrust, and animosity toward the leisure class--not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smoldering hatred of a peasant."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192832641 (0192832646)
Publish date: December 17th 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 359
Edition language: English
The Beautiful and the Damned is the story of Anthony and Gloria Patch, young, indolent, alcoholic trust fund babies, spending their lives drifting, waiting for Grandfather Patch to kick it and hand over the cash. Fitzgerald meshes different writing styles throughout the book, which is a bit discombo...
OMG all these people did was give me a headache. What was their point to being alive? I really don't know.Sometimes they seemed naive, sometimes bored, sometimes lazy, sometimes lost, sometimes spoiled, sometimes crazy...the list goes on.
The only other books I've read by F. Scott Fitzgerald, prior to this one, are The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. Both are wonderful, especially The Great Gatsby.The Beautiful and Damned has many pointers to the greatness that was to follow just three years later with the publication ofThe Gre...
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This book grated me. I realized by the end I enjoyed Gloria's perspective far more than Anthony's, although they were both narcissistic, childish, entitled characters. I started to read another book to before I finished this, to give myself a break, because it was giving me pains. It dragged on and ...
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