The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Beautiful and Damned

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 13 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2011

Synopsis

Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvardeducated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfathers fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches, but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting. A devastating satire of reckless ambition and squandered talent, Fitzgeralds novel is also a shattering portrait of a marriage wasted by alcohol and wealth. It depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald embraced even as he attacked its false social values and shallow literary tastes. Lyrical, romantic, yet cruelly incisive, it signaled a new stage in Fitzgeralds career.

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 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 Lisa of Troy on December 22, 2024

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 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 Lea on June 25, 2021

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.” The Beautiful and the Damned follows the story of Anthony Patch, and his beautiful wife Gloria, living in the New York elite café society during the “Jazz Age“ before and after the Great War in the early 1920s. So muc......more

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