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Tender Is the Night
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Tender Is the Night (1934) (edit title/settings)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “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.”
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  • “He tried breaking into other dialogues, but it was like continually shaking hands with a glove from which the hand had been withdrawn.”
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  • “You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
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  • After lunch they were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others, and missing the clamor of Empire they felt that life was not continuing here.
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  • Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man’s world—they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.
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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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This is book 638 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
This book is in The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. (community list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 28 of 93 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List. (authoritative list)
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (publisher edition list)
This is book 42 of 213 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
This is book 14 of 37 in First Edition Library. (publisher edition list)

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1934
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 300

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  • Library of Congress: PS3511 .I9 1934
  • Dewey: 813.52

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