num_pages: 464
description: `The victor belongs to the spoils.' Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect. Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades and Anthony's drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes, `an abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class - not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smouldering hatred of a peasant'.
language: English
title: The BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED
titlecomplete: The BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED
characters: Anthony Patch, Gloria Gilbert
genres: Romance, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, American, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 56463
awards: awardedAt: 1641024000000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
category: Fiction
publisher: Pocket