Tender is the Night is a story set in tile hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'.A wealthy schizophrenic. Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. Tile resulting saga of the Divers troubled marriage and their circle of friends.includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people.unhappy love affairs, a duel. incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstronl of interpersona conflict. Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth which springs frorn the quality of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the book is based.

The story is set in the hedonistic society of Europe following the First World War. A wealthy mental patient, Nicole Warren, falls passionately in love with her earnest young psychiatrist, Dick Diver.Nicole marries Dick and their roles become reversed as she finds sanity, while Dick descends into alcoholic dissipation when Nicole leaves him for a lover who does not care for her. Tender is the Night is a tragic and often terrifying tale which contrasts good people with evil people, those who live by moral codes and those who flout such behavioural constraints. It contains beautiful and aristocratic women, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, constant undertones of violence, and the destructive forces inherent in the possession of great wealth. Apart from personal tragedy, the book also touches on such global issues as the 1929 Wall Street Crash, the horrors of modern warfare, and the emergence of fascism in Munich. The quality of the writing and the personal experience on which it was based, give this disturbing story a poignancy and an unexpected warmth, and establish its position as a classic work of twentieth century fiction. The novel exposes a tragic paradox, for just as Zelda eventually destroyed her husband, so her inspiration resulted in Tender is the Night.The text of this edition is based on the original 1934 publication.