Tender is the Night Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 068480154X ISBN-13: 9780684801544 Publisher: Scribner Book Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 1995 Annotation: First published in 1934, Fitzgerald's classic story of psychological disintegration was denounced by many as an unflattering portrayal of Sara and Gerald Murphy (in the guise of characters Dick and Nicole Driver), who had been generous hosts to many expatriates. Only after Fitzgerald's death was Tender Is the Night recognized as a powerful and moving depiction of the human frailties that affect privileged and ordinary people alike. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 95006258 |
Lexile Measure: 990(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.74 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 8674 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 20.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles. Set in the south of |
Contributor Bio(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott: - F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's novels include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. |
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