Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | 01 - Book 1 - Chapter 1 Anthony Patch | 46:43 |
02 | 02 - Book 1 - Chapter 2 Portrait of a Siren (Part 1) | 33:45 |
03 | 03 - Book 1 - Chapter 2 Portrait of a Siren (Part 2) | 36:57 |
04 | 04 - Book 1 - Chapter 3 The Connoisseur of Kisses (Part 1) | 50:47 |
05 | 05 - Book 1 - Chapter 3 The Connoisseur of Kisses (Part 2) | 44:46 |
06 | 06 - Book 2 - Chapter 1 The Radiant Hour (Part 1) | 36:34 |
07 | 07 - Book 2 - Chapter 1 The Radiant Hour (Part 2) | 32:41 |
08 | 08 - Book 2 - Chapter 1 The Radiant Hour (Part 3) | 34:25 |
09 | 09 - Book 2 - Chapter 2 Symposium (Part 1) | 48:04 |
10 | 10 - Book 2 - Chapter 2 Symposium (Part 2) | 32:48 |
11 | 11 - Book 2 - Chapter 2 Symposium (Part 3) | 43:42 |
12 | 12 - Book 2 - Chapter 3 The Broken Lute (Part 1) | 40:24 |
13 | 13 - Book 2 - Chapter 3 The Broken Lute (Part 2) | 45:56 |
14 | 14 - Book 3 - Chapter 1 A Matter of Civilization (Part 1) | 44:53 |
15 | 15 - Book 3 - Chapter 1 A Matter of Civilization (Part 2) | 39:04 |
16 | 16 - Book 3 - Chapter 2 A Matter of Aesthetics (Part 1) | 42:38 |
17 | 17 - Book 3 - Chapter 2 A Matter of Aesthetics (Part 2) | 41:53 |
18 | 18 - Book 3 - Chapter 3 No Matter! (Part 1) | 30:26 |
19 | 19 - Book 3 - Chapter 3 No Matter! (Part 2) | 43:04 |
Notes
Running Time: 12 hours and 49 minutes
Read by: E. Tavano
Book Coordinator: E. Tavano
Meta Coordinator: Anna Simon
Artwork
Cover: Illustration on the first edition dust cover of The Beautiful and Damned (1922).
DVD Inset and Insert: Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant, Shadowland magazine (1921)Background image: Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant, Shadowland magazine (1921).
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The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, published in 1922, two years after his very successful debut with This Side of Paradise, is a great work and necessary development in the writer’s considerable genius, to be fully realized three years later in The Great Gatsby. Where his first novel was a wide eyed, though not entirely innocent look at the means by which a talented, handsome young swell might make his mark in the world, The Beautiful and Damned’s Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a tycoon’s fortune, has all but arrived, waiting, as he does, for his considerable inheritance. He courts Gloria, whose sole purpose in life is to be beautiful and to marry well. The book then invites the existential conundrum in the question presented: What does one do when doesn’t have to do anything? The answer is a sad descent into those activities that too often mark and darken America’s uppermost class where food, shelter and clothing are a given forever, where, barring some unusually heinous scandal, society’s acceptance is a given forever, while the characters’ interior lives go begging for something as proletarian as purpose, as banal as meaning. The result for Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria, is a painful descent down the gradient of glitter to the gray regions of alcoholism, ennui and tragedy.
Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936356 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923629 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD box |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) |
Year | 1922 |
Recording | |
Read by | E. Taviano |
Length | 12 hours 49 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Beautiful and Damned
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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