The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s place in the pantheon of great American writers. The story chronicles the courtship, fraught marriage, and social demise of Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a tycoon’s fortune, and Gloria Gilbert, a ravishing society girl. Brilliant and scathing, it is a dazzling tale of lost youth and dissipation that spares no one—least of all the protagonists who resemble, in substance if not circumstance, Fitzg...
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Book One
Chapter 1: Anthony Patch
Chapter 2: Portrait of a Siren
Chapter 3: The Connoisseur of Kisses
Book Two
Chapter 1: The Radiant Hour
Ch...
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and educated at the Newman School and at Princeton. This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was pu...