The Beautiful and Damned: Annotated Warbler Classics Edition

The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's place in the pantheon of great American writers. The story chronicles the courtship, fraught marriage, and social demise of Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and Gloria Gilbert, a ravishing society girl. Brilliant and scathing, it is a dazzling tale of lost youth and dissipation that spares no one--least of all the protagonists who resemble, in substance if not circumstance, Fitzgerald himself and his charismatic, capricious, wife, Zelda. This vivid portrait of a corrupt, rootless, and boozy age anticipates Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, and signals his fascination with the themes that would continue to animate his work.

This edition includes a biographical timeline of the author's life and the full text of Zelda Fitzgerald's spoof review of The Beautiful and the Damned, which appeared in the New York Tribune.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Published: 11/03/2019
ISBN: 9781734029222
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.82d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 32372 / Beautiful and Damned
Reading Level: 7.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 22