The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery.
Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.
作者简介
菲茨杰拉德(F. Scott Fitzgerald)(1896-1940)出生于一个富裕家庭,住在明尼苏达州的保罗。在普林斯顿大学,他决定成为一名作家。1917年,当美国加入一战时,他没有毕业就离开了普林斯顿参军。他以为自己会在前线被杀,于是匆匆写了自己的一部小说,但没有被送往欧洲。他的一部小说《天堂的这边》(1920)出版后受到了评论界的一致好评。出版一周后,他与塞尔达·塞尔结了婚,在纽约开始了一种奢侈的生活方式,这为《美丽与诅咒》(1922)提供了很多素材。这时,他们的女儿斯科蒂出生了,斯科蒂和赛尔达搬到了长岛,这是菲茨杰拉德的下一部小说《了不起的盖茨比》(1925)的背景。他的第四部小说《夜色温柔》于1934年出版。
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born into a well-to-do family living in St Paul, Minnesota. At Princeton University he decided to become a writer, leaving without graduating in 1917 to join the army when America entered the First World War. Believing he would be killed at the front, he hurriedly wrote his first novel, but was not sent to Europe. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) was published to great critical acclaim. He married Zelda Sayle a week after the publication and they embarked on an extravagant lifestyle in New York, which provided much material for The Beautiful and Damned (1922). By this time their daughter, Scottie, had been born, Scott and Zelda had moved to Long Island, which was to be the setting of Fitzgerald's next novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). His fourth novel Tender is the Night, was published in 1934.
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