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The Beautiful and Damned

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'The 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, 'an abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class - not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smouldering hatred of a peasant'.

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Oxford Paperbacks
0192832646 / 9780192832641
Paperback / softback
813.52
01/08/1998
United Kingdom
English
Classics
384p.
20 cm
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