The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

<p><em>The Beautiful and Damned</em> (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a Jazz Age novel that explores love ambition and the destructive pursuit of wealth.</p><p>It follows Anthony Patch a wealthy young man and heir to his grandfather's fortune and his glamorous wife Gloria Gilbert. Both are obsessed with beauty status and pleasure living a life of indulgence and aimlessness in New York society. As they wait for Anthony's inheritance their marriage unravels under the strain of idleness alcoholism and disappointment.</p><p>Ultimately the inheritance brings them little fulfillment highlighting Fitzgerald's critique of materialism and the emptiness beneath the glittering surface of the 1920s elite.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>