The beautiful and damned:
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Main Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940 (Author)
Other Authors: Margolies, Alan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press © 1998
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi) and index
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of F. Scott Fitzgerald; THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED; Explanatory Notes
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 359 pages)
ISBN:0191610518
0192832646
9780191610516
9780192832641

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