Length14h 40m
About this audiobook
Anthony Patch, handsome, Harvard-educated, and heir to a vast fortune, has one purpose in life: to await his inheritance and live with exquisite taste. Gloria Gilbert, a breathtaking flapper, is a vision of Jazz Age glamour, radiating vitality and a thirst for endless celebration. When they meet, they believe they have found their soulmate in hedonism, destined for a life of beauty and pleasure.
But as the Roaring Twenties dawn, their golden waiting game begins to tarnish. Days melt into a haze of extravagant parties, glittering conversations, and endless cocktails, while the promise of Anthony’s inheritance becomes entangled in a protracted legal battle. The couple’s graceful idyll descends into a cycle of boredom, jealousy, and financial desperation.
In this devastating portrait of a glamorous marriage, F. Scott Fitzgerald masterfully dissects the American Dream’s dark underside. The Beautiful and Damned asks a haunting question: What happens to those who worship at the altar of beauty and entitlement, only to find their youth, love, and hopes eroding in the shadow of a vanishing fortune?
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length14 hrs 40 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By the same author in the Cactus catalogue:
8CHAPTER II
2BOOK I
9CHAPTER III
3CHAPTER I
10BOOK III
4CHAPTER II
11CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER III
12CHAPTER II
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13CHAPTER III
7CHAPTER I
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