The Beautiful and Damned
First published 1922 · English · 428 pages
- Novels
- Historical fiction
- Love and romance
This novel tells of Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria, a glamorous young couple in New York in the 1910s. Anthony is waiting to inherit a fortune from his grandfather, and they fill the time with parties, drinking and fashionable idleness, sure that money will arrive and life will stay bright.
Fitzgerald uses their story to study vanity, ambition and the dangers of living without purpose. It is a darker follow-up to his first book, and it draws on his own early married life during the first years of the Jazz Age.
Quotes
The victor belongs to the spoils.
I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go.
She was beautiful — but especially she was without mercy.
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my