Tender Is the Night

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literary work novel

Tender Is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamorous yet tragic lives of an American psychiatrist and his wife on the French Riviera.

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Tender Is the Night (1962 film) 1
Tender Is the Night (1985 TV series) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptation Tender Is the Night self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tender Is the Night (1962 film)

Tender Is the Night self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tender Is the Night (1985 TV series)
author F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ
centralRelationship marriage of Dick Diver and Nicole Diver ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
criticalReception initially mixed reviews ⓘ
firstEditionFormat book ⓘ
focusesOn glamorous yet tragic lives of an American psychiatrist and his wife on the French Riviera ⓘ
genre modernist novel ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ
tragedy ⓘ
hasPart Book 1 ⓘ
Book 2 ⓘ
Book 3 ⓘ
laterReception later recognized as a classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ
literaryMovement Lost Generation ⓘ
literarySignificance considered one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's major works ⓘ
mainCharacter Dick Diver ⓘ
Nicole Diver ⓘ
Rosemary Hoyt ⓘ
narrativePointOfView third-person narration ⓘ
notableCharacter Abe North ⓘ
Franz Gregorovius ⓘ
Mary North ⓘ
Tommy Barban ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
precededBy The Great Gatsby ⓘ
protagonistOccupation psychiatrist ⓘ
publicationYear 1934 ⓘ
publisherFirstEdition Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ
settingLocation French Riviera ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ
structure nonlinear chronology ⓘ
theme American expatriates in Europe ⓘ
disillusionment ⓘ
expatriate life ⓘ
marital breakdown ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ
wealth and decadence ⓘ
timePeriodDepicted 1920s ⓘ
early 1930s ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
titleOrigin derived from John Keats's poem "Ode to a Nightingale" ⓘ

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Tender Is the Night → adaptation → Tender Is the Night self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tender Is the Night (1962 film)
Tender Is the Night → adaptation → Tender Is the Night self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tender Is the Night (1985 TV series)
The Great Gatsby → followedBy → Tender Is the Night ⓘ
F. Scott Fitzgerald → notableWork → Tender Is the Night ⓘ
Charles Scribner's Sons → notableWorkPublished → Tender Is the Night ⓘ
All the Sad Young Men → precedesWork → Tender Is the Night ⓘ