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The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway
Series: Hemingway Library Edition
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The Sun Also Rises follows the expatriate Jake Barnes and the charismatic Lady Brett Ashley as they navigate the moral bankruptcy and spiritual disillusionment of the 1920s. From the cafés of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain, Hemingway explores themes of lost love, alienation, and the search for meaning in a fractured world, told through his trademark lean and powerful prose.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers of classic 20th-century literature, aficionados of Ernest Hemingway's terse style, and those interested in post-war disillusionment and expatriate life.

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The only authorised edition of Ernest Hemingway's first novel, presented by the Hemingway family with illuminating supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library.

"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." --The Wall Street Journal

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest Hemingway's status as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. A poignant look at disillusionment and angst, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most indelible characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.

The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is set during an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealised love, and vanishing illusions. The story lays bare themes of alienation and disenchanted youth.

Hemingway's first novel is "an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose" (The New York Times).

The Hemingway Library Edition commemorates Hemingway's classic novel with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author's sole surviving son, and an introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the author. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life. Early drafts, deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition elucidate how the author achieved his first great literary masterpiece.

Series: Hemingway Library Edition

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501121968

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 February 2016

Imprint: Scribner Book Company

Edition: Hemingway Library ed.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 320

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Classic Fiction Ernest Hemingway Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Hemingway Library Edition

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

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