{"product_id":"the-beautiful-and-damned-f-scott-fitzgerald-9781731701534","title":"The Beautiful and Damned","description":"In this follow-up to his tremendously successful first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise, \u003c\/i\u003e F. Scott Fitzgerald again recaptures the Jazz Age's darker side as well as its excitement and \u003ci\u003ejoie de vivre.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1731701535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781731701534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e32372 \/ Beautiful and Damned\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43937868808447,"sku":"9781731701534","price":25.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_505cd04f-53a4-4678-b228-518463848791.jpg?v=1681432408","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beautiful-and-damned-f-scott-fitzgerald-9781731701534","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}