Name: Mod lib the Beautiful and Damned (Modern Library)
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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott ; Calisher, Hortense
ISBN: 9780375759642

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Mod lib the Beautiful and Damned (Modern Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Introduction by

Hortense Calisher

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.7x14.8x2.3 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN

0375759646

ISBN13

9780375759642

Edition No.

Synopsis "Mod lib the Beautiful and Damned (Modern Library) "

Introduction by Hortense Calisher Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener Fitzgerald's second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgerald's intense romantic imagination and demonstrates an increased technical and emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, marriage, and money, and an acute social document. As Hortense Calisher observes in her Introduction, "Though Fitzgerald can entrance with stories so joyfully youthful they appear to be safe--when he cuts himself, you will bleed." Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 1896-Hollywood, California, December 21, 1940) was a military officer, host, novelist, and American writer, widely known as one of the finest authors of the 20th century, whose works are paradigmatic of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the twenties.

He wrote five novels: The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Last Tycoon, which, although unfinished, was published after his death. He also wrote numerous short stories, many of which deal with youth and promise, age and despair.

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