Beautiful and Damned

<b>The classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald.</b> <p/>Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess changing manners and challenged morals F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful willful wife Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife Zelda--from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed ambition and squandered talent <i>The Beautiful and Damned </i>depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history a world Fitzgerald saw with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.* By turns hilarious heartbreaking and chillingly prophetic it remains one of his best-known works which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten. <p/>*Tobias Wolff<br>