Discover the Penguin books that shaped us

Tender is the Night

byF. Scott Fitzgerald

Format:

Paperback

Buy the book from:

AmazonOpens in a new tabBlackwellsOpens in a new tabBookshop.orgOpens in a new tabFoylesOpens in a new tabHiveOpens in a new tabWaterstonesOpens in a new tabWHSmithOpens in a new tab
'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.'

American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beautiful film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives she is drawn to the couple - Dick contemplates an affair, while Nicole believes she's found a new best friend. But a dark secret lies at the centre of the Divers' marriage. A secret which could destroy Dick and Nicole and those close to them . . .

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
Details
  • Series: Penguin Essentials #36
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780140282559
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Dimensions: 182mm x 21mm x 111mm
  • Weight: 190g
  • Price: £9.99

You might like...

Book cover of Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Goodbye to All ThatRobert Graves
Book cover of Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
Out of AfricaKaren Blixen
Book cover of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess
Book cover of Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany'sTruman Capote
View series