The beautiful and the damned

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  • Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    Contributor:

    Tantor Media

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    OneClick Digital (Firm)

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    Heyborne, Kirby

    Summary:

    Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, "The beautiful and damned" chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches, but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting.

    Genre: Classic fiction, Literature
    Subject(s): Fiction, Inheritance and succession
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781400199617

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Tantor Media

OneClick Digital (Firm)

Heyborne, Kirby

Abstract

Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, "The beautiful and damned" chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches, but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting.

Genre
Classic fiction
Literature
Subject
Fiction
Inheritance and succession
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