(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires."
Anthony Patch is Harvard-educated and awaiting a vast inheritance. Gloria Gilbert is beautiful, narcissistic, and hungry for life at full intensity. Their marriage — glittering at first with jazz, parties, and the certainty that wealth will eventually arrive — begins to corrode as money runs out and the glamour reveals its hollow core. F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Beautiful and Damned in 1922, and drew on his own turbulent marriage to Zelda to write it.
Less celebrated than The Great Gatsby but arguably more honest, The Beautiful and Damned is Fitzgerald's most direct examination of what the Jazz Age actually cost its participants. The novel's portrait of a couple destroying themselves in pursuit of a life they cannot sustain is rendered with the unsentimental precision of a writer who knew the experience from the inside.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Fitzgerald's original, unabridged text — a significant work for any collector of American literary modernism.
