Tender Is the Night Paperback - 2011
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Used
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Details
- Title Tender Is the Night
- Author Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Random House, London, England
- Date 2011-05-02
- Bookseller's Inventory # 7718288-20
- ISBN 9780099541523 / 0099541521
- Reading level 990
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
About this book
Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel in nine years (since The Great Gatsby in 1925) and his fourth and final to complete. The generally autobiographical work reflects events surrounding the hospitalization of Fitzgerald’s schizophrenic wife, Zelda, and his own unrelenting alcoholism. Tender is the Night was published in four issues of Scribner's Magazine (January — April) until Charles Scribner’s Sons produced the first novel edition in April 1934.
The novel, whose title comes from John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” has two versions in print: the original, which uses flashbacks in the narrative, and the second, revised version, published posthumously by Malcolm Cowley, in which the storyline is restructured so that events take place chronologically. Some have suggested that this particular revision was in reaction to critics of the original. Tender is the Night sold only 12,000 copies in its first three months compared to Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, which sold over 50,000 in a similar time period.
Still, reception for Tender is the Night steadily grew over time. Today, it is ranked 28th on the Modern Library’s list of the “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century as well as 69th on NPR’s “100 Years, 100 Novels, One List.”
From the publisher
First Edition Identification
New York-based Charles Scribner’s Sons first published Tender is the Night in 1934. The first edition is bound in green cloth and its original dust jacket includes blurbs by T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld on the front flap as well as original price of $2.50. Signed copies of the true first edition have sold for upwards of $50,000-75,000.
