The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald

One of the most celebrated English novelist F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Beautiful and Damned’ was first published in the year 1922. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after “the Great War” and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald’s characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald’s relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.