The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set during the glamorous, high-society boom of the Jazz Age, the novel explores the slow, agonizing moral and financial decay of a wealthy young couple. Widely considered a semi-autobiographical reflection of Fitzgerald’s own tumultuous early life and marriage to Zelda Sayre, the book offers a cynical, sharp crit…
The Last Tycoon (originally published as The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel) is the final, unfinished masterwork of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Left incomplete upon Fitzgerald's sudden death in 1940 and later edited and published by his friend Edmund Wilson, the novel is widely regarded as one of the greatest fictional indictments of Hollywood's Golden Age—capturing the intoxicatin…