The Beautiful & Damned (Musaicum Must Classics)

Download or read book The Beautiful & Damned (Musaicum Must Classics) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.