The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed …
The Basil and Josephine Stories are a collection of two separate short stories collections by F. Scott Fitzgerald which initially ran serially in The Saturday Evening Post, and some of which were later collected in Taps at Reveille and other posthumous short story collections. The title characters were intended by …
When the young and naïve Rosemary Hoyt comes to the French Riviera in the 1920s she is bedazzled by the glamorous lifestyles of Dick and Nicole Diver and their high-society set. Yet, beneath this polished veneer, the lives of the Divers are fraught with complexity and anxiety. As their mysterious, problematic past …