The Beautiful and Damned (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199539103 ISBN 13: 9780199539109

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2009

Synopsis

`The victor belongs to the spoils.'

Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect. Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades and Anthony's drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes, `an abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class - not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smouldering hatred of a peasant'.
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Anthony Patch The victors belong to the spoils.

Book Description:

This edition includes a detailed account of the composition of the novel, a textual apparatus, a chronology of composition, and, uniquely, three versions of the ending. Explanatory notes situate The Beautiful and Damned in its times and deepen the reader's understanding of Fitzgerald's sources for the novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199539103
• ISBN 13: 9780199539109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Margolies Alan