Tender Is the Night (Unabridged)
A Modernist Tragic Romance of Glamour, Illness, and Moral Decay on the French RivieraBy Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Length169h 24m
About this audiobook
Published in 1934, *Tender Is the Night* follows Dick Diver, a gifted American psychiatrist, and Nicole Warren, his wealthy, psychologically fragile patient and wife, through the glittering expatriate world of the French Riviera and the disillusionments that follow. Fitzgerald's nonlinear design, shifting emotional perspectives, and richly atmospheric prose chart Dick's moral and professional deterioration alongside Nicole's gradual recovery and independence. Combining psychological realism, social satire, and tragic romance, the novel revisits the Jazz Age's cultivated surfaces while exposing the class privilege, sexual tensions, and spiritual exhaustion beneath them. Its modernist treatment of memory, identity, and fractured chronology places it among Fitzgerald's most ambitious explorations of American idealism in decline. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) drew deeply on his own experiences as an American expatriate, his marriage to Zelda Sayre, her mental illness, and the glamorous yet precarious culture of Europe between the wars. Like much of his fiction, this novel transforms personal anguish into a broader critique of wealth, celebrity, and emotional dependence. Fitzgerald's intimate knowledge of privilege and failure gives the narrative both lyrical elegance and unsettling psychological force, while his engagement with European modernism expanded the scope of the American novel. This unabridged edition is especially suited to readers interested in Fitzgerald's mature artistry and in the literary history of the interwar period. It rewards close attention to its structure, symbolism, and complex ethical questions, offering not merely a portrait of lost glamour but a searching study of healing, responsibility, and the costs of self-invention.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length169 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 2, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (Annotated)
2Stories 1909–17. (pt. 1)
3Stories 1909–17. (pt. 2)
4This Side of Paradise. (pt. 1)
5This Side of Paradise. (pt. 2)
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6This Side of Paradise. (pt. 3)
7This Side of Paradise. (pt. 4)
8Flappers and Philosophers. (pt. 1)
9Flappers and Philosophers. (pt. 2)
10Flappers and Philosophers. (pt. 3)
11Stories 1920–25. (pt. 1)
12Stories 1920–25. (pt. 2)
13Stories 1920–25. (pt. 3)
14Stories 1920–25. (pt. 4)
15Stories 1920–25. (pt. 5)
16The Beautiful and Damned. (pt. 1)
17The Beautiful and Damned. (pt. 2)
18The Beautiful and Damned. (pt. 3)
19The Beautiful and Damned. (pt. 4)
20The Beautiful and Damned. (pt. 5)
21The Beautiful and Damned. (pt. 6)
22Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 1)
23Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 2)
24Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 3)
25Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 4)
26Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 5)
27The Vegetable. (pt. 1)
28The Vegetable. (pt. 2)
29The Great Gatsby. (pt. 1)
30The Great Gatsby. (pt. 2)
31The Great Gatsby. (pt. 3)
32All the Sad Young Men. (pt. 1)
33All the Sad Young Men. (pt. 2)
34All the Sad Young Men. (pt. 3)
35Stories 1926–34. (pt. 1)
36Stories 1926–34. (pt. 2)
37Stories 1926–34. (pt. 3)
38Stories 1926–34. (pt. 4)
39Stories 1926–34. (pt. 5)
40Stories 1926–34. (pt. 6)
41Stories 1926–34. (pt. 7)
42Stories 1926–34. (pt. 8)
43Stories 1926–34. (pt. 9)
44Stories 1926–34. (pt. 10)
45Stories 1926–34. (pt. 11)
46Stories 1926–34. (pt. 12)
47Stories 1926–34. (pt. 13)
48Tender is the Night. (pt. 1)
49Tender is the Night. (pt. 2)
50Tender is the Night. (pt. 3)
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