{"product_id":"the-beautiful-and-damned-paperback","title":"The Beautiful and Damned - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master stroke--\u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e--that would follow, and marks a key moment in the writer's career. Would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch embody the corrupt high society of 1920s New York: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a large fortune, they begin their married life by living well beyond their means. Their days are marked by endless drinking, dancing, luxury, and play. But when the expected inheritance is withheld, their lives become consumed with the pursuit of wealth, and their alliance begins to fall apart. Inspired in part by Fitzgerald's own tumultuous union with his wife Zelda, hauntingly rendered and keenly observed, these characters evoke a vivid portrait of a lost world: a city steeped in vice, a society without direction, and the rootless and decadent generation that inhabited it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Princeton University, where he began writing what would become his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise. \u003c\/i\u003eHe left Princeton to join the army during World War I, though the war ended shortly after his enlistment. \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise, \u003c\/i\u003epublished in 1920, was a critical and financial success and was followed the same year by his first story collection, \u003ci\u003eFlappers and Philosophers, \u003c\/i\u003efollowed by \u003ci\u003eTales of the Jazz Age \u003c\/i\u003ein 1922\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eFitzgerald went on to publish three more novels--\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night--\u003c\/i\u003eand many more stories. He died in 1940, leaving his last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Love of the Last Tycoon, \u003c\/i\u003eunfinished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8 x 5.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 22\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754185392416,"sku":"9780307476357","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/51e7020191e770de3939dcdbc7ee4317.webp?v=1780035277","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-beautiful-and-damned-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}