- Fiction, Inheritance and succession, fiction, Married people, fiction, Family life, fiction
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 439
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, HarperCollins Publishers, Manesse-Verlag
- Editions
- 495
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781600962783
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“IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.”
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four novels, *This Side of Paradise*, *The Beautiful and Damned*, *Tender Is the Night* and his most famous, the celebrated classic, *The Great Gatsby*. A fifth, unfinished novel, *The Love of the Last Tycoon* was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. ([Wikipedia][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.
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