Tender is the Night

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 pr...(展開全部) 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. This edition is being superceded by ISBN 9781840226638 Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon F·S·菲茨傑拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald，1896—1940） 二十世紀美國最傑出的作家之一，以詩人和夢想家的氣質為“爵士時代”吟唱華麗輓歌。短短四十四年的人生，他的遭際幾經跌宕起伏，在名利場中看盡世態炎涼。二十世紀末，美國學術界權威在百年英語長河中選出一百部最優秀的小説，凝聚了菲茨傑拉德才華橫溢的兩部長篇小説《了不起的蓋茨比》和《夜色温柔》均榜上有名，前者更高居第二位。