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.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (227.6K)
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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)
26The Beautiful and Damned.
2The Vagabond (Annotated)
27Chapter I
3Misunderstood (Annotated)
28Chapter II
4Tender Is the Night - The Original 1934 Edition (Annotated)
29Chapter III
5Lipstick Lust: 3 Lesbian Classic Novels (Annotated)
30Chapter I
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6Stories 1909–17. (pt. 1)
31Chapter II
7Stories 1909–17. (pt. 2)
32Chapter III
8This Side of Paradise.
33Chapter I
9Chapter 1
34Chapter II
10Chapter 2
35Chapter III
11Chapter 3
36Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 1)
12Chapter 4
37Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 2)
13Chapter 1
38Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 3)
14Chapter 2
39Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 4)
15Chapter 3
40Tales of the Jazz Age. (pt. 5)
16Chapter 4
41The Vegetable. (pt. 1)
17Chapter 5
42The Vegetable. (pt. 2)
18Flappers and Philosophers. (pt. 1)
43The Great Gatsby.
19Flappers and Philosophers. (pt. 2)
44Chapter I
20Flappers and Philosophers. (pt. 3)
45Chapter II
21Stories 1920–25. (pt. 1)
46Chapter III
22Stories 1920–25. (pt. 2)
47Chapter IV
23Stories 1920–25. (pt. 3)
48Chapter V
24Stories 1920–25. (pt. 4)
49Chapter VI
25Stories 1920–25. (pt. 5)
50Chapter VII
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