The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvardeducated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await t...
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Taylor Swift
“It’s something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment.”
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