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title: "The Beautiful and Damned"
brand: "f. scott fitzgerald"
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# The Beautiful and Damned

**Brand:** f. scott fitzgerald
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## Customer Reviews

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    The Beautiful and the Damned
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2018*

Maybe it’s just me, but to me personally “The Beautiful and the Damned” drew a lot of parallels with Fitzgerald’s personal life and relationship with his wife, Zelda. Certain aspects of it come across as eerily autobiographical, but maybe that’s what makes the novel so positively fascinating.Set in the age of jazz and prohibition, Anthony and Gloria represent a perfect picture of the entire high-society generation of that time. The transition between old money and the nouveau-riche of New York society is wonderfully presented, and both of our characters find themselves caught in the swirl of that new age, with nothing to offer it. They’re young and clueless and entirely devoted to the idea that lavish lifestyle is something that they’re both entitled to without having to actually do something to support that lifestyle. After putting all of their hopes into Anthony’s inheritance which he should have gotten from his exceedingly rich grandfather, they learn that the elderly gentleman wrote off all of his money to his aid and multiple charities instead. But even that doesn’t stop them from selling more bonds and throwing more parties all the while hoping to win the money back through the interminable court appeals.From that point on, the couple’s story became a train wreck from which one can’t tear their eyes off. With the same apathetic attitude, Anthony develops a drinking problem all the while thinking himself being somehow cheated out of his rightful position in society. Driven to near poverty in a shabby apartment, both Gloria and Anthony live hand to mouth most of the time, yet both still positively refuse to do anything about it. The ending was… interesting. On one hand, I was glad everything turned out as it did for the couple; on the other, I was a bit disappointed as a lesson was clearly not learned by either.The setting and the prose is fabulous as always, and Fitzgerald doesn’t disappoint with his imaginative metaphors and set of characters, some of whom you’ll love and some - detest. Fitzgerald was indeed the voice of his generation and the novel is worth reading just for that reason. It’s not as brilliant as “Gatsby,” but it’s brilliant nevertheless, in its own, somewhat shallow and destructive, way. Highly recommended.

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    As beautiful as can be...
  

*by R***W on Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017*

There's a reason F. Scott is one of the GOATs. What he can do in describing a dinner scene is greater than what most authors can do in their entire novels. The words here are beautiful, decadent, oozing style and grace and charm and sensuality in spades. While the pacing is often slow, when you realize that it was done deliberately you begin to enjoy the words upon words F. Scott uses to delve into the minutiae of these people's lives. Anthony and Gloria aren't exactly likable characters, and they weren't meant to be, but in watching their lives fall apart and their dreams become ever more deferred they do manage to extract a tiny bit of sympathy from the reader. If you have some time on your hands and enjoy a little bit of schaudenfreude, it's more than worth a read.

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    Beautifully written but verbose
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021*

I have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at least twenty times. I truly believe it is the great American novel. Having read Fitzgerald’s first novel and found it dull, I decided it was time to try the second one The Beautiful and the Damned. This novel is filled with the beautiful turns of phrase that Fitzgerald is known for. I reveled in the words. It was obvious, to me, that this work points toward Gatsby. It is said that he and his wife Zelda were the prototypes for the main characters Anthony and Gloria in The Beautiful and the Damned. But the life of debauchery these two lead could not have been identical to Scott and Zelda’s, for Anthony, in the book, does not have the self-discipline to do any work, much less write a masterpiece like Gatsby. As for the character Gloria, she points toward Daisy in The Great Gatsby, both beautiful, flighty, and reckless. As for the plot, like novel number one The Other Side of Midnight, not a lot happens very fast. In fact, in The Beautiful and the Damned, we read almost two thirds of the novel before much happens, other than endless drinking and partying. Eventually, we readers do get caught up in the plot somewhat, and the ending—which is not the ending I was hoping for—is actually a good one. Ultimately, I, not being a Fitzgerald scholar, see this book as a precursor, a sketchbook if you will, to the masterpiece. The Great Gatsby is a compact story with well-drawn characters couched in gorgeous language. The Beautiful and the Damned is a long, and, for me, drawn out journey on Fitzgerald’s path to greatness.

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