{"product_id":"9780141187815","title":"The Beautiful and Damned","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/09\/2004,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: 20th Century Architects, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Classics,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141187815\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003eExploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in Penguin Modern Classics. Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must face reality; they may be beautiful - but they are also damned. F.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a \"generation\" '. If you enjoyed The Beautiful and the Damned, you might like John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, also available in Penguin Classics. 'A prose that has the tough delicacy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstone's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44197337202925,"sku":"9780141187815","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780141187815.jpg?v=1691159759","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780141187815","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}