The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after «the Great War» and in the early 1920s.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned
Table of Contents
Book One
Chapter I. Anthony Patch
Chapter II. Portrait of a Siren
Chapter III. The Connoisseur of Kisses
Book Two
Chapter I. The Radiant Hour
Chapter II. Symposium
Chapter III. The Broken Lute
Book Three
Chapter I. A Matter of Civilization
Chapter II. A Matter of Aesthetics
Chapter III. No Matter!
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
e-artnow, 2018
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Suddenly he was awake, saying: “What?”
“For how many, sir?” It was still Bounds, standing patient and motionless at the foot of the bed — Bounds who divided his manner among three gentlemen.
