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: Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 13 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2021

Synopsis

In the early twentieth-century, Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, finds himself falling madly in love with another socialite. Self-absorbed and vain, Gloria Gilbert jumps at the chance to marry Anthony, and the pair embark on a downward spiral that illustrates their selfishness and leaves them both unfulfilled. Surrounded by the glitz and the glam of the 1910s, the characters portrayed in this American novel weave a tale of morality and is critical of love, money, and decadence. Drawing upon his own troubled marriage to Zelda Sayres, Fitzgerald paints a picture of the realities and hardships of a relationship where the two members tend towards selfishness and alcoholism.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His literature mainly focused on the Jazz Age in the 1920s and The Lost Generation. Best known for his legendary title The Great Gatsby, his other notable works include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night, and the short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age.

About Tim Campbell

Tim Campbell is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has recorded over 800 titles spanning almost every genre. He has won or been nominated for almost every major award in the industry, including an Audie, a Voice Arts Award, and several Earphones Awards and Independent Audiobook Awards. A graduate of the esteemed Great Books Colloquium of Pepperdine University, he specializes in accents, dialects, and character work and holds three degrees in theater and music.

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 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

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