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The Beautiful and Damned (Oxford World's Classics)
The Beautiful and Damned - Oxford World's Classics Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alan Margolies Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War I generation. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes--"an abiding distrust, and animosity toward the leisure class--not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smoldering hatred of a peasant."