The Beautiful and Damned: Annotated Edition

ISBN-13: 9781847492128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 365 str.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Opis

Fitzgerald's second novel, based on his relationship with Zelda, explores New York cafe society""The idea that to make a man work you ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.""The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery. Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, the novelis a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty."

Recenzje

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. The New York Times

O autorze

Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.