Oxford University Press Oxford World´s Classics The Beautiful and Damned

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Publikace: THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - FITZGERALD, F. S.. `The victor belongs to the spoils.' Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect. Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades and Anthony's drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes, `an abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class - not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smouldering hatred of a peasant'. Publikace: THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - FITZGERALD, F. S.. An American classic about the soulless burden of fabulous wealth and glamour. nové vydání klasické anglické četby