The Beautiful and Damned

Name: The Beautiful and Damned
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781802562941

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 02/02/2025

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the destructive marriage of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert, gilded-age socialites. As they await a vast inheritance, their lives dissolve into indolence, alcoholism, and bitter resentment. Their beauty and charm mask a profound emptiness, revealing the corrosive effects of wealth and aimless desire. The novel explores the fleeting nature of youth and the tragic consequences of a life without purpose.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on April 12, 2024

F. Scott Fitzgerald is a brilliant stylist… He is full of wicked irony and he depicts his hero or his fictional alter ego as an ironic young man… As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of t......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on October 21, 2025

Listen carefully. Lean in. The title is “The Beautiful and Damned.” It is not “The Beautiful and The Damned.” The distinction is subtle but meaningful. Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, obsessively haunts, infiltrating thoughts when least suspected. Ironically, Fitzgerald hated this......more

Goodreads review by Brian on May 31, 2011

A deeply flawed book. A good amount of editing would've greatly improved this book. However, Fitzgerald was coming off his huge success with "This Side of Paradise", so the publisher allowed him to publish this very uneven piece of work. This was the final Fitzgerald novel that I have read, and by f......more

Goodreads review by Briynne on January 21, 2009

Fitzgerald wasn't joking with that title. These people were completely screwed from the moment they hit the page, and it was fascinating to watch it all disintegrate. As I mentioned in the review I just finished for Tender is the Night, I found Anthony and Gloria to be some of the more unsympath......more

Goodreads review by Ilenia on August 14, 2018

"E questo mi ha insegnato che non si può avere niente, non si può avere assolutamente niente. Perché il desiderio inganna. È come un raggio di sole che guizza qua e là in una stanza. Si ferma e illumina un oggetto insignificante, e noi poveri sciocchi cerchiamo di afferrarlo: ma quando lo afferriamo......more