F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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The work that signaled Fitzgerald's maturity as a storyteller and novelist, The Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age. Anthony Comstock Patch is a Harvard-educated gallant who leisurely aspires to author a book as he awaits an enormous inheritance upon his grandfather's death. Gloria is a sparkling young socialite and a rare beauty. Patch's impassioned marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and consumed by...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America's greatest writers. His novel The Great Gatsby remains on the bestseller lists 70 years after his death. Tales of the Jazz Age defined a generation. It was Fitzgerald himself who coined the phrase. He and his wife lived a decadent, fast-paced lifestyle that is reflected in his writing. The recent major motion pictures The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is included in this collection,...
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As a boy Amory Blaine never has to think much about his future. Born into wealth, he spends his childhood traveling the country with his beloved socialite mother, relying on his intelligence and good looks to open doors. As Amory drifts from a pleasant if aimless childhood to a pleasant if aimless adulthood, he begins to crave something more than idle intellectual pursuits and love affairs; but determining what this something is amidst the bright,...