Francis Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most prominent American prose writers of the 20th century. In his novels 'This Side of Paradise,' 'The Great Gatsby,' 'The Last Tycoon,' and others, Fitzgerald managed to vividly and accurately express the mood of the 'Jazz Age,' marked by ostentatious optimism and a heightened appetite for consumption, a century that ended in 1929 with a severe economic crisis.
His novel 'Tender Is the Night,' which the writer called 'his favorite work,' was no exception.