The Beautiful and Damned (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781731701534)

In this follow-up to his tremendously successful first novel, This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald again recaptures the Jazz Age's darker side as well as its excitement and joie de vivre.The Beautiful and Damned traces the meteoric path of two glittering young socialites. Building their marriage on the shaky foundation of an expected inheritance, they devote themselves to hedonistic pursuits that lead to moral and financial bankruptcy.
The characters' self-indulgence and mutual destruction anticipated the tragic lives of Scott and his flapper wife, Zelda. The Fitzgeralds regarded the world as a stage and their lives as performances, and their glamorous doings became as well-known as any of Scott's books. In an eerie foreshadowing of the real-life couple's rapid descent into ruin, this lyric, compulsively readable narrative examines the perishable nature of dreams in the face of reality--a theme scrutinized with profound effect in the book's esteemed successor, The Great Gatsby.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 1731701535
ISBN-13: 9781731701534
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2018
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.7
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32372 / Beautiful and Damned