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  • Published: 11 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241387511
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

Tender is the Night




Fitzgerald's great tragedy set on the French Riviera, now in Penguin Black Classics.

The French Riviera in the 1920s is 'discovered' by Dick and Nicole Diver, who turn it into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and corruption that haunt their marriage. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald poured much of the essence of his own life, while depicting the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.

  • Published: 11 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241387511
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

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F Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.

Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a 'generation'. . . he might have interpreted and even guided them, as in their midle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'

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