Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria squander their youth and beauty waiting on an inheritance, decaying amid Jazz Age dissipation.
Books mentioned in The Beautiful and Damned (7)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton: “one week she wept over "Ethan Frome"”
Penrod by Booth Tarkington: “She wanted not to talk but only to read "Penrod"”
Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Charles Swinburne: “he recited "Atalanta in Calydon" to an uncomprehending Pole”
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert: “sitting in his apartment trying to read "L'Education Sentimental"”
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “some silly girl asks me if I've read 'This Side of Paradise'”
Peg o' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners: “MURIEL: Have you seen "Peg o' My Heart"?”
Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood: “Have you seen "Fair and Warmer"?”
Books that mention The Beautiful and Damned (1)
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Beautiful and Damned, the writer Dick Caramel tells of a conversation with his uncle from Kansas”