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The Beautiful and Damned (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

The Beautiful and Damned (Modern Library Classics) By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hortense Calisher (Introduction by) Cover Image
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hortense Calisher (Introduction by)
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Introduction by Hortense Calisher
Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener
 
Fitzgerald’s second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgerald’s intense romantic imagination and demonstrates an increased technical and emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, marriage, and money, and an acute social document. As Hortense Calisher observes in her Introduction, “Though Fitzgerald can entrance with stories so joyfully youthful they appear to be safe—when he cuts himself, you will bleed.”

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide 

About the Author


Hortense Calisher (19112009) was the author of more than twenty books, including the National Book Award nominees False Entry, Herself, and The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher.

Praise For…


“Full of precisely observed life.” —Arthur Mizener


Product Details
ISBN: 9780375759642
ISBN-10: 0375759646
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: February 12th, 2002
Pages: 416
Language: English
Series: Modern Library Classics