F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned

About The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned (1922) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel — the story of Anthony and Gloria Patch, a beautiful young couple who spend a decade waiting for an inheritance while their marriage and their capacity for happiness gradually deteriorate. More autobiographical and more bitter than The Great Gatsby, it is the Fitzgerald novel that most directly captures the disillusionment of the Jazz Age in real time.