The Beautiful And Damned, Paperback Book, By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Because desire just cheats you.? She is a reveller. He is a socialite. They are young, haughty and selfish. And they do not understand the idea of working. Meet Gloria Gilbert, the beautiful, narcissistic dancer and Anthony Patch, the prospective heir to his grandfathers fortune. Stunned by Gloria's beauty, Anthony is desperately in love with her; and soon she becomes his wife. But as the passionate and glamorous couple await the inheritance, indulging in the luxurious and thrilling lifestyle of New York, they are chafed under financial pressures. What happens as their marriage begins to fail in the face of reality? With characters representing the extravagance of the upper echelons and the intrinsic conflicts of a changing social environment, F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Beautiful and Damned probes into the caf society of New York, exploring the ideas of money and decadence. About the Author: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, was born in September 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper middle class Irish Catholic family. A renowned American author of novels and short stories, Fitzgerald's first piece of writing - a detective story published in the school newspaper - appeared in print in 1909. His works from the epitome writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is considered a member of the 'Lost Generation' of the 1920s.