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The beautiful and damned. By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ( NOVEL )

The beautiful and damned. By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ( NOVEL )

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The beautiful and damned. By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ( NOVEL )

The beautiful and damned. By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ( NOVEL )

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781542900058
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 02/02/2017
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Author of the widely lauded novel The Great Gatsby, as well as This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for chronicling the excesses and tribulations of the Jazz Age. One of the leading authors of the post-World War I "Lost Generation," Fitzgerald often invokes themes of youth, beauty, and despair in his books and short stories. He was also known for his hard-partying lifestyle, as well as his marriage to the beautiful yet troubled Zelda Fitzgerald.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University
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