{"product_id":"the-beautiful-and-damned-paperback-2","title":"The Beautiful and Damned - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJay Parini\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eRuth Prigozy\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife, Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda--from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned \u003c\/i\u003edepicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw \"with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.\"* By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted \"will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Tobias Wolff\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and educated at the Newman School and at Princeton. \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel, was published in 1920 and transformed him virtually overnight into a spokesman for his generation and a prophet of the Jazz Age. That same year, he married Zelda Sayre, and the two became America's most celebrated expatriates, dividing their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera during the Twenties. Fitzgerald's most famous novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1925, and \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night \u003c\/i\u003ein 1934. After Scott and Zelda were forced by money and health problems to return to the States, Fitzgerald became a writer for Hollywood movie studios. He died in 1940 while working on his unfinished novel of Hollywood, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e. His other works include \u003ci\u003eFlappers and Philosophers \u003c\/i\u003e(1920), \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned \u003c\/i\u003e(1922), \u003ci\u003eTales of the Jazz Age \u003c\/i\u003e(1922), \u003ci\u003eAll the Sad Young Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), and \u003ci\u003eTaps at Reveille \u003c\/i\u003e(1935). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Prigozy \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English and Film Studies at Hofstra University. She is Executive Director of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, which she co-founded in 1990. She has published widely on F. Scott Fitzgerald as well as on Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, the Hollywood Ten, and film directors Billy Wilder, D.W. Griffith, and Vittorio de Sica. She has edited Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, and The \u003ci\u003eCambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald: An Illustrated Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She has co-edited two volumes on detective fiction and film, one on the short story, and two collections of essays on Fitzgerald.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 6.86 x 4.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 22\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44399643689062,"sku":"9780451530431","price":16.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/DgW4zDVVY89780451530431.webp?v=1769536245","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-beautiful-and-damned-paperback-2","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}