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The Beautiful and Damned

Yazan: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Seslendiren: Adam Sims
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'Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know – because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand.'

One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's earlier novels, The Beautiful and Damned was first published in 1922 to much commercial success. Modelled on the early years of Fitzgerald's own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, the reader is given an acute insight into the ups and downs of a mismatched love affair.

Anthony Patch, a young yet unambitious graduate from Harvard University, moves to New York and soon meets fellow socialite and flapper, Gloria Gilbert. Infatuated by her beauty, Anthony soon proposes to Gloria, and the pair embark on a doomed whirlwind romance. Their marriage is combative and tense; Anthony expects Gloria to be more domesticated while Gloria expects Anthony to fund her extravagant lifestyle. They both commit to ignoring their issues, attending glamorous social events and drinking in excess. But, of course, this arrangement can only last so long…

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American essayist and novelist. Renowned for his colourful and lively depictions of the 1920s and 1930s Jazz Age, his works were also deeply concerned with love, class and materialism. He published four novels and over one hundred short stories in his lifetime.

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Started slow but crept up on me. Great characters and atmospheric. Was swept up in it and believed in characters. Loved it.

Great story book group Choice the Beautiful and The Damned

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Adam Sims does a superlative job in reading this, one of the less well known of Fitzgerald's novels. He makes only one pronunciation slip up ("badinage"), which is pretty good going by audiobook standards. And he manages to find distinctive voices for each of the characters, including the female ones without slipping into caricature as some readers do when having to voice a character of the opposite sex.

The novel itself is a curious thing. For much of its duration one wonders why one should care about such self absorbed and shiftless characters, but Fitzgerald's - even if later improved - is vivid enough to hold the attention and to keep listening.

You may or may not find the novel to be for you, but you won't fault the execution of the audiobook here.

Excellently read, an interesting minor Fitzgerald

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The Beautiful and the Damned is Scott Fitzgerald's "forgotten" masterpiece and its powerful evocation of its era (just prior to and during the early years of the so-called Jazz Age) is superbly rendered by Adam Sims' faultless reading of it. The story is pure melodrama (almost a parody of the trashy popular culture it is constantly knocking) but it is a haunting and compelling one, as bitter and cynical as anything its author ever wrote, but with much more in the way of compassion for its central characters. It is also an intelligent, deeply ironic and highly pertinent representation of the hollowness of the American Dream - far more so than the better known and somewhat slighter Gatsby novella.

Superb reading of an underrated classic

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