Tender is the Night: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation' (Read & Co. Classics Edition)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

Lyrical, tragic, and hauntingly beautiful, Tender is the Night absorbs F. Scott Fitzgerald’s personal struggles and mirrors the incredible writer’s fractured marriage.

Dick Diver is a talented, successful young psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and patient, Nicole, on the French Riviera. Set in the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age, this novel follows the Divers as a beautiful actress enters their lives and highlights the dark delicacy of their marriage. Heavily influenced by Fitzgerald’s own relationship, the Divers’ romantic charade begins to crumble as Dick descends into alcoholism and Nicole struggles with her mental health.

From one of the greatest American novelists of the Jazz Age, Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel. First published in 1934, this poetic masterpiece captures the hope, idealism, and corruption of the Roaring 20s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781528798471
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	10/26/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
Sales rank:	897,792
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Author of the widely lauded novel The Great Gatsby, as well as This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for chronicling the excesses and tribulations of the Jazz Age. One of the leading authors of the post-World War I "Lost Generation," Fitzgerald often invokes themes of youth, beauty, and despair in his books and short stories. He was also known for his hard-partying lifestyle, as well as his marriage to the beautiful yet troubled Zelda Fitzgerald.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University