Changes to Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Alina B edited the characters of Tender Is the Night Friday, September 11 2009.

Edited the description of Dick Diver: American, ~~the central interest of the novel~~psychiatrist
marked the description of Nicole Diver as not a spoiler
Added the description of Mary North: Abe's wife
marked the description of Mary North as not a spoiler
Edited the description of Violet McKisco: friend of the Divers'

Alina B edited the characters of Tender Is the Night Friday, September 4 2009.

Edited the description of Dick Diver: American, the central interest of the novel
Edited the description of Nicole Diver: Dick's wife, ~~both Americans~~mental patient
marked the description of Nicole Diver as a spoiler

Alina B edited the characters of Tender Is the Night Friday, September 4 2009.

Alina B edited the quotations of Tender Is the Night Friday, September 4 2009.

Added a quotation: “He tried breaking into other dialogues, but it was like continually shaking hands with a glove from which the hand had been withdrawn.”Abe McKisco

Alina B edited the quotations of Tender Is the Night Friday, September 4 2009.

Added a quotation: “The moment when the guests had been daringly lifted above conviviality into the rarer atmosphere of sentiment, was over before it could be irreverently breathed, before they had half realized it was there.”Rosemary on the party

Alina B edited the books like this book of Tender Is the Night Sunday, August 30 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Tender Is the Night Saturday, August 1 2009.

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it -- not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character -- lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative -- Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of "a modern Orpheus."

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Shelfari edited the contributors of Tender Is the Night Thursday, July 23 2009.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Tender Is the Night Friday, July 17 2009.

On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel.

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