Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald began composing Tender Is the Night in the summer of 1925, but he struggled with the novel and reworked it intensively over the next nine years. A study of the disintegration of a talented young American psychiatrist, set among wealthy American expatriates living in Europe after the First World War, the novel, finally published in 1934, is now considered one of his major works. Fitzgerald saved a great many of his working materials - notes, diagrams, holographs, typescripts, proofs and correspondence - making it possible to reconstruct in detail the passage of Tender Is the Night from manuscript to print. The Cambridge edition follows the order of the first edition; it includes a history of composition, an analysis of Fitzgerald's plan for republication and an explanation of the chronology of the narrative. The edition also contains full historical annotations, facsimiles of surviving drafts and a record of emendations.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/26/2012
Pages: 452
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780521402323

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.8
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8674 / Tender Is the Night

About the Author
West III, James L. W.: - James L. W. West, III is Edwin Erle Spacks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.