Tender Is the Night

by Fitzgerald, F Scott

Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel in nine years (since The Great Gatsby in 1925) and his fourth and final to complete. The generally autobiographical work reflects events surrounding the hospitalization of Fitzgerald’s schizophrenic wife, Zelda, and his own unrelenting alcoholism. Tender is the Night was published in four issues of Scribner's Magazine (January ­— April) until Charles Scribner’s Sons produced the first novel edition in April 1934.

The novel, whose title comes from John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” has two versions in print: the original, which uses flashbacks in the narrative, and the second, revised version, published posthumously by Malcolm Cowley, in which the storyline is restructured so that events take place chronologically. Some have suggested that this particular revision was in reaction to critics of the original. Tender is the Night sold only 12,000 copies in its first three months compared to Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, which sold over 50,000 in a similar time period.

Still, reception for Tender is the Night steadily grew over time. Today, it is ranked 28th on the Modern Library’s list of the “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century as well as 69th on NPR’s “100 Years, 100 Novels, One List.”

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New York-based Charles Scribner’s Sons first published Tender is the Night in 1934. The first edition is bound in green cloth and its original dust jacket includes blurbs by T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld on the front flap as well as original price of $2.50. Signed copies of the true first edition have sold for upwards of $50,000-75,000.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons Revised Edition. Copyright page states 1933, 1934 L-2.67 [Col]. UNDATED, Circa 1958. With $4.50 Unclipped original white black and gold Charles Scribner's unclipped dust jacket. ALSO page count is just 315 pages, shorter than the First Edition. Used. Very Good Condition/ Very Good- Black boards with gilt titling on spine.… Read more about this item
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TENDER IS THE NIGHT: A RomancebyF. SCOTT FITZGERALD (Fitzgerald's unquestionably penultimate book) 1934 Charles Scribner's Sons:New York First Edition, Third Printing One of 2500 copiesPrinted in May 1934 Second printing dust jacket:"$2.50" priceReviews on front inner flap by:Mary Colum, Gilbert Seldes & Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings This copy was INSCRIBED byF. Scott Fitzgerald to SHIRLEY CHIDSEY,wife of writer,Donald Barr Chidsey June 6, 1940 (Fitzgerald died December 21, 1940) Shirley Chidsey was divorced from… Read more about this item
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Tender Is The Night (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Early reprint. Small tear at the foot, corners a bit bumped, a near very good copy without dustwrapper. Bookplate of Libby Holman Reynolds, the torch singer who was married to, and was later embroiled in the murder of, an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Holman was the subject… Read more about this item
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8vo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 8vo, 408 pp. Original dark green cloth, with gilt on spine still bright. Very good condition, light shelf wear, prior owner's name and gift inscription on front fly-leaf and no other markings. With rare, first state dust jacket, albeit unrestored and faded. Housed in custom clamshell case. § First edition, first… Read more about this item
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