The Beautiful and Damned

Download or read book The Beautiful and Damned written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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'.