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
novel
author F. Scott Fitzgerald
centralRelationship marriage of Anthony and Gloria Patch
character Adam Patch
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts New York high society
alcohol abuse
financial instability
firstEditionFormat hardcover
followedBy The Great Gatsby
genre Jazz Age novel
modernist novel
social novel
tragedy
hasAdaptation The Beautiful and Damned (1922 film)
The Beautiful and Damned (2010 film project, unproduced/limited)
hasISBN 978-0-7432-6099-0
includedIn F. Scott Fitzgerald
surface form: F. Scott Fitzgerald's collected works
influencedBy F. Scott Fitzgerald's experiences in New York
F. Scott Fitzgerald's marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod Jazz Age literature
mainCharacter Anthony Patch
Gloria Patch
medium print
narrativeFocus psychological deterioration of protagonists
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor critique of American upper-class values
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
surface form: Jazz Age
settingPlace New York City
theme decadence of the upper class
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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F. Scott Fitzgerald notableWork The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned originalLanguageTitle The Beautiful and Damned self-link
The Great Gatsby precededBy The Beautiful and Damned