The beautiful and damned / Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Traces Anthony and Gloria Patch, a spoiled couple, through various romantic pursuits which leave them after six years of marriage with Anthony a mental and physical wreck and Gloria's beauty waning.

In 1913 New York, a young Harvard graduate set to inherit a fortune from his grandfather marries and embarks on a life of alcohol and indulgence, assuming that he and his wife will soon be wealthy, but falls into self-destruction and despair when the money does not come through.

The romantic pursuits of spoiled couple Anthony and Gloria Patch leave them, after six years of marriage, with Anthony a mental and physical wreck and Gloria's beauty waning.