{"product_id":"the-beautiful-and-the-damned","title":"The Beautiful and the Damned","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1922, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, a glittering and increasingly melancholy portrait of love, wealth, and ambition in Jazz Age New York. At its centre are Anthony Patch, a handsome, idle young heir awaiting his grandfather’s fortune, and Gloria Gilbert, a celebrated beauty whose charm and independence make her the object of his consuming affection. Drawn together by their shared appetite for pleasure, the couple embark upon a marriage of fashionable parties, extravagant evenings, and the seductive promise of a life without ordinary responsibilities. Yet beneath the champagne and careless gaiety, their romance begins to reveal the dangerous distance between the lives they imagine and the realities they are unwilling to confront.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten during the early years of Fitzgerald’s marriage to Zelda Sayre, the novel draws upon the extravagance and uncertainties of the world they inhabited, transforming the glamour of the Roaring Twenties into a searching study of disillusionment. Its exploration of vanity, inherited privilege, romantic idealism, and the corrosive effects of idleness reveals the darker undercurrents beneath an era devoted to beauty and pleasure. Published between \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it marks an important development in Fitzgerald’s literary imagination, anticipating his later fascination with wealth, longing, and the impossibility of recovering what time has taken away. Both a romance and a quietly devastating social portrait, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e captures a generation determined to possess everything, yet increasingly uncertain of what might make life worth living.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“There's no beauty without poignancy, and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— F. Scott Fitzgerald, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“There are a hundred signs in it of serious purpose and unquestionable skill.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— H. L. Mencken, The Smart Set, April 1922\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63866239091018,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1028\/0389\/8698\/files\/the-beautiful-and-damned-f-scott-fitzgerald-english-bookstore-paris.png?v=1791564926","url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/the-beautiful-and-the-damned","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}