Tender Is The Night and Save Me The Waltz

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Harper Collins, May 22, 2012 - Fiction - 584 pages

Prominent literary society spouses F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald famously chronicled their stormy marriage in Tender is the Night and Save Me the Waltz, respectively, providing conflicting yet remarkably consistent views of a marriage besieged by personal illness and neglect.

A deliberately ambitious work, Tender is the Night is the compelling story of Dick Diver, a gifted psychoanalyst at the beginning of his career, his wife Nicole, one of his patients, and their holiday encounter with Rosemary Hoyt. Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, and most autobiographical, novel, capturing in fiction the complexity, frustration, and depth and ultimate destruction of love between Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, who was at the time of writing confined in a mental institution.

Save Me the Waltz follows the story of southern belle Alabama Beggs who is married to the successful, but philandering, artist David Knight. Desperate for David’s attention and for success in her own right, Alabama devotes herself to building, and ultimately achieving, success as a ballerina. Written while Zelda Fitzgerald was being treated for schizophrenia at the Phipps Clinic, Save Me Waltz is evocative of high society in the Jazz Age and a woman’s quest to define herself both within and outside of her marriage.

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Contents

Book III
About the Author
Already with thee tender is the night
To Gerald and SaraMany Fêtes
Book I
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI

Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Au clair de la luneMon Ami PierrotPrêtemoi ta plumePour écrire un motMa chandelle est morteJe nai plus de feuOuvremoi ta portePour lamour de D...
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
And twofor teaAnd me for youAnd you for meAlowown
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Book II
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Lay a silver dollarOn the groundAnd watch it rollBecause its round
A woman never knowsWhat a good man shes gotTill after she turns him down
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
OhohohohOther flamingoes than meOhohohohOther flamingoes than me
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Just picture you upon my kneeWith tea for two and two for teaAnd me for you and you for me
Chapter XIII
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Book III
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
There was a young lady from hellWho jumped at the sound of a bellBecause she was badbadbadShe jumped at the sound of a bellFrom hell BOOMB...
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Thank y fatherrThank y motherrThanks for meetingup with one another
Chapter VIII
Oh way down South in the land of cottonHotels bum and business rottenLook away
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
About the Author
Save Me the Waltz
CONTENTS
To Mildred Squires
We saw if old blue skies and summer seas
Chapter 1
II
III
Chapter 2
II
III
Chapter 3
II
III
Chapter 4
II
III
About the Author
About the Series
Copyright
About the Publisher
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.

American writer Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is known as much for her volatile marriage to novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald as she is for her own published work, Save Me the Waltz. Married to Fitzgerald at a young age, Zelda was an icon of the Jazz age, personifying the energy and excess of the Roaring Twenties. As expatriates in Europe, the Fitzgeralds were members of the Lost Generation, socializing with such literary celebrities as Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. Overshadowed for much of her marriage by her husband’s success, Zelda sought to define her own identity through a variety of artistic endeavours including writing, dance, and art. The strain of her turbulent marriage contributed to her admittance to a sanatorium in 1930, at which time she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Zelda spent the rest of her life in and out of institutions, and finally died tragically in a fire in 1948.

Bibliographic information

TitleTender Is The Night and Save Me The Waltz
AuthorsF. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald
PublisherHarper Collins, 2012
ISBN1443416231, 9781443416238
Length584 pages
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