The Beautiful and Damned / Прекрасные и проклятые

The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York caf societ у 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.