书名：Tender Is the Night 夜色温柔
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数990L
作者：F. Scott Fitzgerald
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007449484
商品尺寸：11.1 x2.8 x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：448 （以实物为准）

Tender Is the Night《夜色温柔》发表于1934年，是菲茨杰拉德生前完成的zui后一部长篇小说，描写的是一个出身寒微但才华出众的青年对富有梦幻色彩的理想的追求以及后来如何遭到失败、变得颓废消沉的故事。这是一部带有很强的自传性的小说，探索了一种酷似作者所经历的感情与精神的崩溃过程。《夜色温柔》无论从何种意义上说，都堪称菲茨杰拉德非常优秀的作品之一，标志着他在《了不起的盖茨比》的基础上又向前跨出了坚实的一大步。
本书为柯林斯经典系列的全英文版，原版进口，小巧轻便，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解。
From Collins Classics and the author of “The Great Gatsby” a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. 
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.” 
Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties. 
Features:
·Life & Times—a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time ofpublication
·Glossary of Classic Literature—useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken fromCollins English Dictionary

Tender Is the Night《夜色温柔》的故事发生在第一次世界大战后的法国和瑞士，但展现的仍是美国“爵士乐时代”的社会生活：来自美国中西部的迪克·戴弗才华出众，是一名前途无量的年轻心理学家。他爱上了前来就医的美国富翁之女——因与父亲乱伦而患上精神病的妮科尔·沃伦，并和她结婚了。婚后，妻子精神状况的反复无常耗尽了他的精力，奢侈的生活方式蚕食了他固有的道德观念。在这双重压力下，迪克开始酗酒，并与一个女影星产生了爱情纠葛，而妮科尔则选择和阔少爷寻欢作乐……
The novel almost mirrors the events of Fitzgerald and Zelda’s lives.Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s harrowing demise.

弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德，二十世纪美国杰出作家。1920年出版了长篇小说《人间天堂》，名声大噪。1925年《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。菲兹杰拉德不仅写长篇小说，短篇小说也频有特色。除上述两部作品外，主要作品还有《夜色温柔》（1934）和《末代大亨的情缘》（1941）。他的小说生动地反映了20年代“美国梦”的破灭，展示了大萧条时期美国上层社会“荒原时代”的精神面。
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American “Jazz Age” of the Roaring Twenties and includeThis Side of Paradise,The Beautiful and Damned,Tender Is the Night,The Great Gatsby,The Last Tycoon, andTales of the Jazz Age. 

Chapter 1
On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel. Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. Lately it has become a summer resort of notable and fashionable people; a decade ago it was almost deserted after its English clientele went north in April. Now, many bungalows cluster near it, but when this story begins only the cupolas of a dozen old villas rotted like water lilies among the massed pines between Gausse’s Hôtel des Étrangers and Cannes, five miles away.
The hotel and its bright tan prayer rug of a beach were one. In the early morning the distant image of Cannes, the pink and cream of old fortifications, the purple Alp that bounded Italy, were cast across the water and lay quavering in the ripples and rings sent up by sea-plants through the clear shallows. Before eight a man came down to the beach in a blue bathrobe and with much preliminary application to his person of the chilly water, and much grunting and loud breathing, floundered a minute in the sea. When he had gone, beach and bay were quiet for an hour. Merchantmen crawled westward on the horizon; bus boys shouted in the hotel court; the dew dried upon the pines. In another hour the horns of motors began to blow down from the winding road along the low range of the Maures, which separates the littoral from true Provençal France.
A mile from the sea, where pines give way to dusty poplars, is an isolated railroad stop, whence one June morning in 1925 a victoria brought a woman and her daughter down to Gausse’s Hotel. The mother’s face was of a fading prettiness that would soon be patted with broken veins; her expression was both tranquil and aware in a pleasant way. However, one’s eye moved on quickly to her daughter, who had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after their cold baths in the evening. Her fine forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet, and shining, the color of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood— she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.
As sea and sky appeared below them in a thin, hot line the mother said:
“Something tells me we’re not going to like this place.”
“I want to go home anyhow,” the girl answered.
They both spoke cheerfully but were obviously without direction and bored by the fact— moreover, just any direction would not do. They wanted high excitement, not from the necessity of stimulating jaded nerves but with the avidity of prize-winning schoolchildren who deserved their vacations.