This edition incorporates an original introduction from Moorside Press, including a biography, a critical discussion of Fitzgerald's place in the literary history and a short contextual discussion of the book.Published in 1934 first as a serial in Scribner's Magazine and then as a book in the same year, Tender in the Night was Fitzgerald's last novel released in his lifetime. The plot details the deteriorating relationship between Dick and Nicole Driver, comparing it, in flashback, with their coming together when she was a psychiatric patient of her future husband. With the setting in the South of France, the narrative displays more of Fitzgerald's autobiographic tendencies. Unfortunately, the the novel was not a success when first published owing mostly to the complex nature of the flashbacks set against the present. Before he died, Fitzgerald worked to create a new structure, taking out flashbacks and making the narrative continuous. After his death, the book gradually became more accepted amongst critics. The text of this ebook is as it was on first publication.