About this title: This book is with an introduction and notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. "Tender is the Night" is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the "Roaring Twenties". A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribners, New York
Date Published: 1962
ISBN-13:9780684717630ISBN:0684717638
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated front wraps, clean. this is likely a 1970's printing. lightly rubbed, light edge wear, small crease to top back corner. no crease to spine, text clean as new. nice reading copy. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribners, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Gray wraps and orange label, clean. slight crease to spine, text clean, light edge rubbing. orginal text, nice reading copy. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribners, New York
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. Original text, in the old gray paper wraps with orange label. slightly faded at spine. lightly worn at edges. corners sharp, no crease to spine, text clean. no printing date. original $ 1.45 price on front cover. the copies ive seen are usually well loved, but this is a nice copy. read more
Edition: reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scribner Classics, New York, NY
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780020199304ISBN:0020199309
Description: Gently read softcover in G+ condition. NO writing, highlighting, or dog-eared pages. Age toning noted to the edges of the pages and light foxing noted to the inside covers. Covers are very good with light edge wear. Faint spine-creasiing evident. Binding is tight and square. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Some corner, edge wear, discoloration. Pages good, no writing. The original text, in a completely redesigned edition. Good working copy. 315 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. ---349 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The boards have light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
"Ah the roaring 20s! The Great War (WWI) is over. The stock market is going gang busters; its crash is yet to come. The Great Depression is looming in the not too distant future, but of course no one knows that. What's a rich, shallow, American to do but hang out in Europe and behave badly???
Earlier this week I heard on the news that narcissism is on the rise. I looked down at Mr. Fitzgerald in my hand and thought surely the person on television telling me this is not a student of history. Tender Is the Night is all about narcissists and the destruction they leave behind them in the post-WWI years. Their behavior is not all that different from Americans of today...a sense of entitlement and an anti-intellectual culture that celebrates movie stars and pop music. It's all too familiar.
Nicole was the only real character to me. A victim of a terrible crime she was branded for life as mentally ill. She was the only person in the story with any soul. She was weak and let others control her and label her as mad but in the end Nicole took control of her life. She saw her situation for what it was and stood up for herself. I was proud of her for the way she handled the situation with dignity.
Fitzgerald portrays American's in brutely honest way but with the most beautiful prose you can imagine. I'm glad I own a copy of this one because I was constantly grabbing the pen to underline amazing sentences."
"Fitzgerald continues to surprise me. This is the second book of his that I have read, the first being the all powerful Gatsby. I was impressed at how rich this book was. I had never heard of it and a friend recommend it to me. It takes some time to read and is very challenging, but it rewards the reader in the end with its careful study of the power (good or bad) of relationship and ultimately how we relate to one another in terms of our differing emotional inputs/outputs."
"This book tells the story of American psychologist Dick Diver and his wife, the wealthy but psychologically unstable Nicole. The setting is the small French coastal town of Tarmes, between the late 1920's and the early 1930's. The book portrays a rypical Fitzgerald fictional universe: wealthy, idle, sophisticated, and in many ways "troubled". The book also deals with the effect wealthy Americans had on Europe culture. If you like tales of the roaring 20's, I think you will like this book"
"Out of the F. Scott Fitzgerald books that I've read (The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise), this one is definitely the most depressing. However, it is Fitzgerald's personal favorite, and that is for a reason. It is highly biographical, paralleling the relationship between Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda. Also, I think it is the best written of his novels. "Tender is the Night" shows Fitzgerald's true talent as an author. I found it a very enlightening read."
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