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The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.[1] 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 partying to excess at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age.[2][3] As Fitzgerald's second novel, the work focuses on the swinish behavior and glittering excesses of the American idle rich in the heyday of New York's café society.[4] Fitzgerald modeled the characters of Anthony Patch on himself and Gloria Gilbert on his newlywed spouse Zelda Fitzgerald.[5] The novel draws circumstantially on the early years of Fitzgeralds' tempestuous marriage following the unexpected success of the author's first novel, This Side of Paradise.[6] At the time of their wedding in 1920, Fitzgerald claimed neither he nor Zelda loved each other,[7][8] and the early years of their marriage in New York City resembled a friendship.[9][10] Having reflected upon earli

The Beautiful and Damned - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Beautiful & Damned (album) , The Beautiful and Damned (film) , and Beautiful and Damned (musical). The Beautiful and Damned The cover of the first edition Author F. Scott Fitzgerald Cover artist W. E. Hill Language English Genre Tragedy Published September 1921 to March 1922 (serialized) [ 1 ] March 4, 1922 (book form) [ a ] Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons Publication place United States

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