Title The beautiful and damned / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited with an introduction and notes by Alan Margolies

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 359 pages) Series Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of F. Scott Fitzgerald; THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED; Explanatory Notes Summary T̀he victor belongs to the spoils.' Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect. Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades and Anthony's drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes, àn abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class - not the conviction of a revolutionist Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi) and index Notes Print version record Subject Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Married people -- Fiction Socialites -- Fiction Alcoholics -- Fiction Young men -- Fiction FICTION -- General. Alcoholics Inheritance and succession Married people Social conditions Socialites Young men SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932 -- Fiction Subject New York (State) -- New York United States Genre/Form Domestic fiction Fiction Psychological fiction Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Form Electronic book Author Margolies, Alan. ISBN 9780191610516 0191610518 9780191611056 0191611050

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