"Tender Is the Night" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities is a major examination of Fitzgerald's 1934 masterpiece as the clearest exemplar of Fitzgerald's sentimentalism, a mode that shaped his distinctive blend of romance and realism throughout his career.

A story of Americans living on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.

Now available in a beautifully designed collector’s edition, this modern classic set in the South of France after World War I is the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable patient who becomes his wife. Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline. Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934, and is even more beloved by readers today.

A story of Americans living on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability

Tender Is the Night is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1932, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the "la Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson to work on this book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. While working on the book he several times ran out of cash and had to borrow from his editor and agent, and write short stories for commercial magazines. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald was conceiving and working on the book, were certainly the darkest years of his life, and accordingly, the novel has its bleak elements._x000D_ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

ANNOTATIONS *Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald*About Tender is the Night*Tender is the Night Summary*Character List*Glossary*Themes*Summary And AnalysisBook 1, Chapters i-ivBook 1, Chapters v-xBook 1, Chapters xi-xvBook 1, Chapters xvi-xxBook 1, Chapters xxi-xxvBook 2, Chapters i-vBook 2, Chapters vi-xBook 2, Chapters xi-xiiiBook 2, Chapters xiv-xviiiBook 2, Chapters xix-xxiiiBook 3, Chapters i-vBook 3, Chapters vi-xiii*Question & AnswersTender is the Night (1934) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel. The story, primarily about human deterioration, the disintegration of love and marriage, and the mental illness that both causes and results from these troubles, was conceived and written during what was perhaps the most difficult and painful period in Fitzgerald's life.In 1932, his wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia (as was the character of Nicole Diver) in Baltimore, Maryland. In order to be close to his wife while he worked on his book, Fitzgerald rented the "La Paix" estate in a nearby Maryland suburb.This was to be his first published novel in nine years, and Fitzgerald ran out of cash several times before completing it, thus having to write short stories for magazines and borrowing money from his editor and agent to stay afloat.The novel's two main characters, Dick and Nicole Diver, were modeled after an American expatriate couple, Gerald and Sara Murphy, who lived on the French Riviera and with whom the Fitzgeralds were very close. The Murphys were a sophisticated and glamorous couple who entertained the Fitzgeralds as well as other prominent artists of the Lost Generation.Although the Divers resemble the Murphys with regard to their poise and charm, their marriage (and its downfall) more closely resembles the troubled marriage of the Fitzgeralds. Mental illness, alcoholism, growing emotional distance, and eventual separation are circumstances that defined both the real and the fictional relationships. The novel's title is taken from a line in a Keats poem, "Ode to a Nightingale," which resounds with similar themes of passion, mortality, and fading youth.The novel received mixed reviews upon its publication. Though many lauded its literary power and elegance, post-Depression Americans were less charmed by descriptions of decadence on the Riviera. Just as Fitzgerald's critics claimed that he was not a serious or responsible writer, so critics of his final novel felt that it was frivolous. Fitzgerald himself believed that the novel was flawed, and he wanted to re-write the final section. Despite its uncertain unveiling, Tender is the Night is currently hailed as an insightful account of aristocratic life and as a lyrical and intimate portrait of a troubled couple.Two versions of the novel are in print. The original 1934 version employs a flashback to present a portrait of the young Dick and Nicole and of the beginning of their relationship. The revised version (published posthumously in 1951) progresses in chronological order and was possibly Fitzgerald's reaction to criticism of the book's temporal structure following its initial publication.A 1962 film, Tender Is the Night, is based on the novel.