书名：The Beautiful and Damned美丽与毁灭
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1120L
作者：F. Scott Fitzgerald
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007925353
商品尺寸：11.1x2.9x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：464 （以实物为准）

“爵士作家”菲茨杰拉德自传体小说，温柔与傲慢，感伤与优雅。
记录作家华美绮丽的一生，美丽背后的残酷与哀愁。
不论你是否年轻、怀旧或追逐流行，终逃不过毁灭的厄运！
《美丽与毁灭》是一面镜子，映射出作者菲茨杰拉德的自传性色彩；也对美国暴发户的贪婪及纽约夜生活的挥霍、蒙蔽天赋的虚掷浪费，极尽令人刺目之嘲讽。一对新婚夫妇——安东尼•帕奇和葛罗丽亚——讲究而拘谨遇上轻挑又浪漫，像是红茶加巧克力的组合；他们追求奢侈华丽的上流生活，依凭上一辈的财富不事生产，终日纸醉金迷以致道德、经济、健康不断扭曲、沦落。
本书为柯林斯经典系列的全英文版，原版进口，小巧轻便，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解。
From Collins Classics and the author ofThe Great Gatsbycomes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age.
From the author ofThe Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald's rich and detailed novel of the decadent Jazz Era follows the beautiful and vibrant Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria as they navigate the heady lifestyle of the young and wealthy in 1920s New York. Patch is the presumptive heir to his grandfather's fortune, and keeps his equally spoiled wife in comfort while biding time until his grandfather's death. Patch is unable to hold down any kind of job and spends his days in luxury, indulging in whatever pleasures are available. But as the money begins to fail, so does their marriage. Patch's gradual descent into alcoholism, depression and alienation from his marriage ultimately lead to his ruin. Fitzgerald's novel is a remorseless exploration of the horrors of an age of excess and lost innocence. F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Despite his present popularity, Fitzgerald was often in financial trouble, due to the fact that only one of his novels sold well enough to support the extravagant lifestyle that he and his wife Zelda adopted, and later Zelda's medical bills. His novel The Great Gatsby has sold millions of copies and remains a continual best-seller.
Features:
·Life & Times—a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time of publication
·Glossary of Classic Literature—useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken fromCollins English Dictionary

《美丽与毁灭》故事的开端，安东尼•帕奇似乎还只是一个纯真无邪的追梦者，是一个没有生活经验的人。他，单身。以幻想为自足。就他心智状态，他决定写一部关于中世纪的作品——那是一个充满勇猛和刚毅的骑士风范的时代，终极目标是追求理想中的清纯少女。然而，很快他就结识了葛罗丽亚。她是一位时髦的少女，面容清新，姿色过人——“实在是太美丽”。有人令人屏息的惊艳。但她是一个恣意挥霍和放纵的人。对他们来说，婚姻是，“对某人需要的使然”“出类拔萃”“一场生动、有趣、迷人的表演”。他们坚决不要小孩，婚姻变成儿戏——他们仍然怀想像小孩一样无忧无虑的生活。
安东尼幻想从富裕的祖父那里继承巨额遗产的希望和新年一直支撑这他们夫妇二人的婚姻。“喝酒买醉对他来说是一种仁慈。”堕落从此开始……”小说的高潮从此开始，祖父偶然造访。这位毅然支持禁酒运动的道德家碰见烂醉如泥的安东尼•帕奇。以致取消了他的财产继承权……
The Beautiful and Damned,first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy inTender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德，二十世纪美国杰出作家。1920年出版了长篇小说《人间天堂》，名声大噪。1925年《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。菲兹杰拉德不仅写长篇小说，短篇小说也频有特色。除上述两部作品外，主要作品还有《夜色温柔》（1934）和《末代大亨的情缘》（1941）。他的小说生动地反映了20年代“美国梦”的破灭，展示了大萧条时期美国上层社会“荒原时代”的精神面。
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American “Jazz Age” of the Roaring Twenties and includeThis Side of Paradise,The Beautiful and Damned,Tender Is the Night,The Great Gatsby,The Last Tycoon, andTales of the Jazz Age.

Book One
Chapter 1 Anthony Patch
Chapter 2 Portrait of a Siren
Chapter 3 The Connoisseur of Kisses
Book Two
Chapter 1 The Radiant Hour
Chapter 2 Symposium
Chapter 1 The Broken Lute
Book Three
Chapter 1 A Matter of Civilization
Chapter 2 A Matter of Aesthetics
Chapter 1 No Matter!

CHAPTER I
ANTHONY PATCH
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual “There!”—yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows.
This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality. Until the time came for this effort he would be Anthony Patch—not a portrait of a man but a distinct and dynamic personality, opinionated, contemptuous, functioning from within outward—a man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.
A Worthy Man and His Gifted Son
Anthony drew as much consciousness of social security from being the grandson of Adam J. Patch as he would have had from tracing his line over the sea to the crusaders. This is inevitable; Virginians and Bostonians to the contrary notwithstanding, an aristocracy founded sheerly on money postulates wealth in the particular.
Now Adam J. Patch, more familiarly known as "Cross Patch," left his father's farm in Tarrytown early in sixty-one to join a New York cavalry regiment. He came home from the war a major, charged into Wall Street, and amid much fuss, fume, applause, and ill will he gathered to himself some seventy-five million dollars.
This occupied his energies until he was fifty-seven years old. It was then that he determined, after a severe attack of sclerosis, to consecrate the remainder of his life to the moral regeneration of the world. He became a reformer among reformers. Emulating the magnificent efforts of Anthony Comstock, after whom his grandson was named, he levelled a varied assortment of uppercuts and body-blows at liquor, literature, vice, art, patent medicines, and Sunday theatres. His mind, under the influence of that insidious mildew which eventually forms on all but the few, gave itself up furiously to every indignation of the age. From an armchair in the office of his Tarrytown estate he directed against the enormous hypothetical enemy, unrighteousness, a campaign which went on through fifteen years, during which he displayed himself a rabid monomaniac, an unqualified nuisance, and an intolerable bore. The year in which this story opens found him wearying; his campaign had grown desultory; 1861 was creeping up slowly on 1895; his thoughts ran a great deal on the Civil War, somewhat on his dead wife and son, almost infinitesimally on his grandson Anthony.