Download or read book The Beautiful and Damned (1922) Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Original Version) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria. The couple is eager to embrace a life of ease once Patch inherits his grandfather's fortune. The novel offers a devastating portrait of a reckless marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth amid the extravagances of the 1920s