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The Beautiful and Damned & The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.
The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.
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First published October 15, 2013
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,323 books25.5k followersFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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March 27, 2018
SPOILERS AHEAD SO STOP READING THIS REVIEW NOW!
Back to the book, it took me +- a week to complete, in-between chapters that lulled me to sleep, which I will give a 3 stars for I cannot give and I did not read any other book because I wanted to finish this firstly!!
It is not worth more than that or less because it is also basically a part of the American history, which included some interesting facts the story for example it is almost a hundred years old, gives great inside to the Jazz era, the author did not get recognition for this book until he died, this book was written off as a failure, but many broadways productions and movies was created because of this book!
In short this book was based on a love story, which I love because hey 99% books I read are love stories, it is also based on the fact that everything in this book was based on Gatsby’s love for a woman and becoming rich to win her back!!
BUT THIS HAS no HEA, which I actually do not like, and was unnecessary because Gatsby could pick any woman (because he had lots of money) BUT NO he wanted a married woman and the idiot Gatsby got himself killed but in his defence he loved Daisy since he was a poor soldier!!
Not BOOK RELATED!.
This was almost like the Titanic which Leonardo also played the major role in, and also got himself killed because of a woman! The poor guy can never get a break!
See below he did not have to die in The Titanic there was actually space for him not to freeze to death!!
Anyhow, this was probably not too bad and I think others should give it a try!
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Blurb:
The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.
Blurb:
The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.
August 31, 2021
Gatsby- I saw the film in high school. I recall it was dark and somewhat sinister... not so much. The interesting stuff that could be discussed then marked as a spoiler... that would require more than a page between the event and the reveal.
The characters are drab, boring people and the men are almost as insipid as the women. This is also the case in The Beautiful and Damned which could be retitled The Dull and Boring.
I remember my grandmother and great-aunt taking about the jazz era and it sounded cool (fascinating and riotous in contrast to the novel). Did I mention they lived in rural Texas?
I've yet to get halfway through but it's killing my love of books and reading. Tech manuals hold the attention better. 5th grade social studies texts are more exciting.
Don't bother unless you are a literature major and it's required. Not even a good historical sample.
The characters are drab, boring people and the men are almost as insipid as the women. This is also the case in The Beautiful and Damned which could be retitled The Dull and Boring.
I remember my grandmother and great-aunt taking about the jazz era and it sounded cool (fascinating and riotous in contrast to the novel). Did I mention they lived in rural Texas?
I've yet to get halfway through but it's killing my love of books and reading. Tech manuals hold the attention better. 5th grade social studies texts are more exciting.
Don't bother unless you are a literature major and it's required. Not even a good historical sample.
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June 22, 2020Finished reading the Great Gatsby on June 21st, 2020. The first half of the story is sort of boring, and I took some effort to understand a bunch of complicated sentences. At the beginning of chapter 7, I think something should be about to happen, or the story is thoroughly boring - and Fitzgerald didn't disappoint me. The story from chapter 7 is shocking, as I didn't expect such a sad end.
The annotation webpage, https://genius.com/1063557, helped me a lot. But there are a number of spoilers without a warning.
The annotation webpage, https://genius.com/1063557, helped me a lot. But there are a number of spoilers without a warning.
October 25, 2021
Zaista, nevjerovatno djelo, koje bi moralo biti dio obavezne literature u obrazovnom sistemu. Ficdžerald je genije među piscima, pravi virtuoz i umjetnik pripovijedanja života... Neopravdano zapostavljen velikan...
U ovom romanu živi džez, san o uspjehu koji je moguće dosanjati i san o ljubavi, koji još uvijek traje.
U ovom romanu živi džez, san o uspjehu koji je moguće dosanjati i san o ljubavi, koji još uvijek traje.
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