Publish with us

Connect with us

Penguin Select Classics: The Beautiful And Damned

(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

The most glittering orbs have the sharpest edges, and the most shinning lives the darkest truths.

Anthony Patch is a Harvard-educated, aspiring socialite. Gloria Gilbert is a beautiful but narcissistic dancer living in New York. Stunned by Gloria’s beauty, Anthony falls in love with her; and they are soon married. Gloria is a reveller who wants the fine life, and Anthony a spoilt brat who doesn’t want to work in life.

The passionate and glamorous couple await Anthony’s inheritance, till they run out of money and the joy in each other’s company. What happens as their marriage begins to fail in the face of reality? Will they be able to make the life they want or their laziness will be the crux of their falling.

Fitzgerald weaves a reminder of the follies of human ambition set against lots of glamor, jazz music, cigars and glittery gowns. This story is a grown-up fairy-tale with realities of the hustle looming nearby.

Published: Apr/2024

ISBN: 9789815202618

Length: 400 Pages

Penguin Select Classics: The Beautiful And Damned

(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.”

The most glittering orbs have the sharpest edges, and the most shinning lives the darkest truths.

Anthony Patch is a Harvard-educated, aspiring socialite. Gloria Gilbert is a beautiful but narcissistic dancer living in New York. Stunned by Gloria’s beauty, Anthony falls in love with her; and they are soon married. Gloria is a reveller who wants the fine life, and Anthony a spoilt brat who doesn’t want to work in life.

The passionate and glamorous couple await Anthony’s inheritance, till they run out of money and the joy in each other’s company. What happens as their marriage begins to fail in the face of reality? Will they be able to make the life they want or their laziness will be the crux of their falling.

Fitzgerald weaves a reminder of the follies of human ambition set against lots of glamor, jazz music, cigars and glittery gowns. This story is a grown-up fairy-tale with realities of the hustle looming nearby.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Best known for The Great Gatsby (1925) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922), the main themes of his work were love, society and class, aspiration, and loss. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24,1896, his father, Edward was from Maryland and his mother, Mary McQuillan was the daughter of an Irish immigrant. His first interaction with the art of storytelling was when a detective story he wrote was published in the school newspaper when he was thirteen. He moved to New York City to pursue his literary career. His work belongs with the best of his contemporaries.

More By The Author