THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED By F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (GUNSTON CLASSICS)

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED - BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD - GUNSTON CLASSICS The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in New York City, the novel's plot follows a young artist Anthony Patch and his flapper wife Gloria Gilbert who become "wrecked on the shoals of dissipation" while excessively partying at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age. As Fitzgerald's second novel, the work focuses upon the swinish behavior and glittering excesses of the American social elite in the heyday of New York's café society. This story is modeled after his flapper wife Zelda and th early days of their marriage.