Tender is the night /
F. Scott Fitzgerald ; with an introduction and notes by Henry Claridge.
- Hertfordshire (UK) : Wordsworth Editions, 1995.
- 288 p. ; 20 cm.
- Wordsworth classics .
- Wordsworth classics .
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 saga of the Diver's troubled marriage and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth which springs from the quality of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the book is based.
9781853260971
Psychiatrists--Fiction Wealth--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction