{"product_id":"beautiful-damned-8","title":"Beautiful \u0026 Damned","description":"\u003cp\u003eExploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald''s \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned \u003c\/i\u003eincludes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A 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. But 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e This Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e and, incomplete at the time of his death, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e. After his death \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003esaid of him that ''in fact and in the literary sense he created a \"generation\" ''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like John Dos Passos'' \u003ci\u003eManhattan Transfer\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A prose that has the tough delicacy of a garnet''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320164819326,"sku":"NW9780141187815","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141187815.jpg?v=1778236492","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/beautiful-damned-8","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}