The Beautiful and Damned
- 442
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Beautiful and Damned” is an unsparing portrait of a glamorous couple squandering themselves. Fitzgerald’s second novel follows Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria through the parties of New York’s idle rich in the 1910s as their recklessness catches up with them. Some readers find the pair’s irresponsibility almost unbearable to watch. Dark in mood, it means 442 pages with two people who are hard to admire.
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About the book
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in New York City, the novel's plot follows a young artist Anthony Comstock Patch and his flapper wife, Gloria Gilbert, who wreck themselves "on the shoals of dissipation" while partying to excess at the dawn of the Jazz Age. As Fitzgerald's sophomore novel, the work focuses on the swinish behavior and glittering excesses of the American idle rich in the mid-1910s heyday of New York's café society.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 99 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 40% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 11 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 88 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Beautiful and Damned?
It has 442 pages — longer than 84% of the ranked books in Classics.
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