Meet Anthony Patch—wealthy, well-bred, and dangerously certain that his future is paved in gold. Alongside his glamorous and reckless wife, Gloria, he dives headlong into the Jazz Age’s glittering chaos, chasing pleasure with abandon and assuming fortune will always follow.
But when the inheritance he’s built his life around evaporates, Anthony’s charm begins to crack. The war offers no redemption, and the marriage that once sparkled soon sinks under the weight of excess, disillusionment, and broken dreams.
In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a hauntingly personal portrait of love, ambition, and ruin at the heart of 1920s high society. A searing prelude to The Great Gatsby, this is the story of what happens when youth fades—and reality crashes the party.
