The Beautiful and Damned
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The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 Jazz Age novel that portrays the troubled marriage and moral decline of Anthony and Gloria Patch amid their pursuit of wealth and status.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| centralRelationship | marriage of Anthony and Gloria Patch ⓘ |
| character | Adam Patch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
New York high society
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alcohol abuse ⓘ financial instability ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Great Gatsby ⓘ |
| genre |
Jazz Age novel
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modernist novel ⓘ social novel ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Beautiful and Damned (1922 film)
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The Beautiful and Damned (2010 film project, unproduced/limited) ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-7432-6099-0 ⓘ |
| includedIn |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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surface form:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's collected works
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| influencedBy |
F. Scott Fitzgerald's experiences in New York
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Jazz Age literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Anthony Patch
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Gloria Patch ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | psychological deterioration of protagonists ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of American upper-class values
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portrayal of Jazz Age excess ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | The Beautiful and Damned self-link ⓘ |
| precededBy | This Side of Paradise ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1922 ⓘ |
| publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Roaring Twenties
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surface form:
Jazz Age
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| settingPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| theme |
decadence of the upper class
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disillusionment ⓘ hedonism ⓘ inheritance and entitlement ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ moral decline ⓘ pursuit of wealth ⓘ social status ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStory | pre–World War I to early 1920s ⓘ |
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