The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/28/22

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The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the glittering, uneasy years just before and after World War I, The Beautiful and Damned follows Anthony Patch, a charming Harvard graduate who believes his real life will begin once he inherits his wealthy grandfather's fortune. In New York City he meets Gloria Gilbert, a magnetic young woman whose beauty and appetite for pleasure match his own. They marry and plunge into a social world of parties, cocktails, and fashionable friends, convinced that talent and good looks will carry them through. But as the inheritance remains out of reach, their days of effortless indulgence collide with the realities of work, money, and responsibility. Anthony's drifting ambition turns combative, Gloria's dreams of admiration meet the limits of time and circumstance, and the couple's love becomes entangled with jealousy, pride, and dependence. With sharp wit and a clear-eyed view of American privilege, Fitzgerald traces how desire, idleness, and expectation can erode character - and how two people can both adore and damage each other while chasing a life that never quite arrives.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:47:10) Chapter 2

(01:21:19) Chapter 3

(01:58:41) Chapter 4

(02:49:59) Chapter 5

(03:35:13) Chapter 6

(04:12:11) Chapter 7

(04:45:16) Chapter 8

(05:20:05) Chapter 9

(06:08:39) Chapter 10

(06:41:50) Chapter 11

(07:25:59) Chapter 12

(08:06:51) Chapter 13

(08:53:20) Chapter 14

(09:38:41) Chapter 15

(10:18:11) Chapter 16

(11:01:18) Chapter 17

(11:43:38) Chapter 18

(12:14:26) Chapter 19

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Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 27, 2022

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527m

Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers a vivid set of stories that capture the glitter and unease of post-World War I America, when prosperity, parties, and reinvention seemed to promise a new kind of freedom. Moving from Manhattan drawing rooms to small town streets and into dreamlike, even fable-like landscapes, Fitzgerald follows ambitious young men and women chasing status, romance, and a sense of self in a world that rewards charm but punishes sincerity. Across these sharply observed tales, characters gamble on love, money, and reputation, only to find that desire can be both a ladder and a trap. With his signature blend of wit and melancholy, Fitzgerald explores the costs of social climbing, the seductions of wealth, the fragility of youth, and the quiet heartbreak behind bright lights. By turns satirical, tender, and haunting, this collection offers a portrait of an era at its most exhilarating and most precarious, and asks what remains when the music slows and the illusions start to fade.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:08:52) Chapter 01

(00:48:46) Chapter 02

(01:43:45) Chapter 03

(02:37:44) Chapter 04

(03:28:35) Chapter 05

(03:49:14) Chapter 06

(04:40:42) Chapter 07

(05:16:18) Chapter 08

(06:11:18) Chapter 09

(06:26:03) Chapter 10

(07:33:42) Chapter 11

(08:19:58) Chapter 12

(08:35:17) Chapter 13

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

December 28, 2022

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63m

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In a quietly uncanny Baltimore, a child is born under extraordinary circumstances: Benjamin Button arrives with the appearance and manner of an old man, setting his family on a collision course with confusion, embarrassment, and reluctant wonder. As the years pass, Benjamin moves through school, work, love, and social life in the most unexpected direction, forcing everyone around him - and especially Benjamin himself - to confront what it means to belong in a world governed by ordinary time. His father, Roger Button, struggles to protect the family name while navigating a son who upends every expectation. Benjamin's own desires are simple enough: to be taken seriously, to find companionship, and to claim a place where his body and his age make sense together. But society is not built for someone whose life runs against the clock. With Fitzgerald's sharp wit and bittersweet insight, the story uses its fantastical premise to explore identity, ambition, romance, and the fragile rules by which people measure a life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:41) Chapter 02

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