THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife, Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda—from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, The Beautiful and Damned depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw “with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.”* By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted "will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten".
"He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature...charm-charm as keats would have used it... a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite." – R. Chandler
Автор | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Страници | 379 |
Корица | мека |
Език | английски |
Година | 2007 |
Дата на получаване | 23.05.2014 г. |
Издателство | SIGNET BOOK |
ID на книга | 50323043 |
Поредица | Signet Classics |
ISBN | 9780451530431 |
Категории | Световна класика |
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