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Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926
This long-awaited Library of America edition brings together for the first time in one volume the now legendary writings from Ernest Hemingway’s breakthrough years in Paris. Featuring newly edited texts and several previously uncollected writings, it reveals as never before the astonishing artistic evolution that led the young journalist and expatriate author to transform the short story and the novel and to perfect the famous prose style that has influenced writers ever since.
In his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst’s International News Service, Hemingway began to hone his gift for concise description. That journalism is represented here by a selection of thirty-one articles from 1920 to 1923, some never before republished, on subjects ranging from trout fishing to the rise of fascism in Italy. Hemingway’s exploration of new modes of storytelling is on display in two early stories, “A Divine Gesture” (1922) and “Up in Michigan” (1923)—the former reprinted here for the first time since its original publication—and in the rare Three Mountains Press edition of in our time (1924), a haunting series of vignettes of violence and alienation now recognized as a landmark of literary modernism.
At the center of this volume are Hemingway’s first three full-length works—the story collection In Our Time (1925), the scathing satirical novel The Torrents of Spring (1926), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). All are presented in corrected texts newly edited by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon. In Our Time introduces Hemingway’s alter ego, Nick Adams, and a wide range of characters, many drawn from life. “The End of Something,” “Soldier’s Home,” “Cat in the Rain,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” and the other celebrated stories in the collection retain their extraordinary vividness and an unsettling ability to make their spare economy of language bear the weight of all that is left unsaid. Set apart in Hemingway’s work by its tone of high-spirited nonsense, The Torrents of Spring, written in just ten days, is a bridge-burning parody of work by his mentors Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein. In The Sun Also Rises, based on his experiences in Paris and Spain, Hemingway solidified his role as the preeminent literary voice of the Lost Generation. This new text corrects numerous errors, restores key changes made to Hemingway’s original punctuation, and reinstates references to real people removed by his editor for fear of libel.
Rounding out the volume is a generous selection of letters to a brilliant array of correspondents, including Anderson, Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Sylvia Beach, Edmund Wilson, and Maxwell Perkins. A newly researched chronology and detailed notes offer vital context for understanding Hemingway’s many allusions to persons and events.
In his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst’s International News Service, Hemingway began to hone his gift for concise description. That journalism is represented here by a selection of thirty-one articles from 1920 to 1923, some never before republished, on subjects ranging from trout fishing to the rise of fascism in Italy. Hemingway’s exploration of new modes of storytelling is on display in two early stories, “A Divine Gesture” (1922) and “Up in Michigan” (1923)—the former reprinted here for the first time since its original publication—and in the rare Three Mountains Press edition of in our time (1924), a haunting series of vignettes of violence and alienation now recognized as a landmark of literary modernism.
At the center of this volume are Hemingway’s first three full-length works—the story collection In Our Time (1925), the scathing satirical novel The Torrents of Spring (1926), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). All are presented in corrected texts newly edited by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon. In Our Time introduces Hemingway’s alter ego, Nick Adams, and a wide range of characters, many drawn from life. “The End of Something,” “Soldier’s Home,” “Cat in the Rain,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” and the other celebrated stories in the collection retain their extraordinary vividness and an unsettling ability to make their spare economy of language bear the weight of all that is left unsaid. Set apart in Hemingway’s work by its tone of high-spirited nonsense, The Torrents of Spring, written in just ten days, is a bridge-burning parody of work by his mentors Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein. In The Sun Also Rises, based on his experiences in Paris and Spain, Hemingway solidified his role as the preeminent literary voice of the Lost Generation. This new text corrects numerous errors, restores key changes made to Hemingway’s original punctuation, and reinstates references to real people removed by his editor for fear of libel.
Rounding out the volume is a generous selection of letters to a brilliant array of correspondents, including Anderson, Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Sylvia Beach, Edmund Wilson, and Maxwell Perkins. A newly researched chronology and detailed notes offer vital context for understanding Hemingway’s many allusions to persons and events.
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Published September 22, 2020
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Ernest Hemingway
2,217 books32.4k followersErnest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.
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February 18, 2023
El primer volumen de la colección de
Ernest HEMINGWAY
publicada por la Librería de América reúne sus primeros escritos: artículos que escribió para el periódico Toronto Star Weekly entre 1920 y 1923, muy divertidos algunos de ellos; tres cuentos tempranos: "A divine Gesture", "Up in Michigan" e "in our time", este último la base para el más formal "In Our Time" (nótense las mayúsculas) y las novelas "The Torrents of Spring" y "The Sun Also Rises". El volumen termina con una amplia selección de cartas escritas entre 1918 y 1926.
Aunque la crítica aclama a "The Sun Also Rises" como una obra maestra, en lo personal me gustó mucho más "The Torrents of Spring", una novelita muy divertida, escrita con un estilo burlón muy accesible. Una reseña que puedo describir como perpleja fue la que se publicó en junio de 1926 en el New York Times: "Mr. Hemingway Writes Some High-Spirited Nonsense".
Aunque la crítica aclama a "The Sun Also Rises" como una obra maestra, en lo personal me gustó mucho más "The Torrents of Spring", una novelita muy divertida, escrita con un estilo burlón muy accesible. Una reseña que puedo describir como perpleja fue la que se publicó en junio de 1926 en el New York Times: "Mr. Hemingway Writes Some High-Spirited Nonsense".
June 29, 2021
The Library of America is the premier non-profit organization dedicated to preserving America’s literary heritage for all time. Classic American authors from Mark Twain and John Steinbeck to James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston will have their works printed in perpetuity in fine cloth-bound hardcover editions. Having been in business since the 1980s, Library of America has an impressive collection of authors and works, some of which have been out of print for a long time. However, one landmark of the American literary landscape has been conspicuously missing: Ernest Hemingway. This is due to copyright laws that have been guarded zealously by Hemingway’s publisher, but with the recent lapsing of those copyright protections, Library of America has published its first volume of Hemingway’s collected works in this volume. Was it worth the wait?
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February 22, 2021
Hemingway's early Nick Adams stories set in Northern Michigan are some of my favorites. They didn't disappoint upon re-reading. Hemingway's early journalism for the Toronto Star had a slightly cynical voice that reminded me of 60's and 70's columnist Mike Royko.
The Sun Also Rises is a great first novel. Although in this collection I learned it was really Hemingway's second novel. He cranked out the parody novel The Torrents of Spring in 10 days, mocking recent works of Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson, two of Hemingway's mentors. It's not clear if he wrote this work as a legitimate piece of humor or a way to maneuver out of a publishing contract. Hemingway's first publisher, Boni & Liveright, published Sherwood Anderson. Hemingway's contract gave Liveright the right of first refusal on Hemingway's first three work's, but if they rejected any of these works Hemingway had the option to exit the contract. Liveright chose not to publish Torrents a parody of one of their leading authors and Hemingway was free to move to another publisher. Charles Scribner's published The Torrents of Spring, The Sun Also Rises and all of Hemingway's future works.
Hemingway's autobiographical The Sun Also Rises describes life in post WWI Paris cafe society and the travels Hemingway loved as a free living 24 year old in the Basque and Pyrenees region of Spain and the bull-fighting fiesta in Pamplona. The alcohol fueled adventures depict a group of young people, most supported by family money, who want to put the burdens of war and rea life far away from them.
While I enjoyed The Sun Also Rises I had reservations about the way Hemingway's protagonists, described and related to the character Robert Cohn, a Jewish writer who is part of this circle. Repeatedly Hemingway uses Cohn's jewishness to stereotype this character's behaviors and motivations.
These reservations became troubling when I read the collection of Hemingway letters from 1918 to 1926 in the back of this collection. Hemingway repeatedly shows prejudice against Jews and calls out traditional stereotypes of Jews as miserly people failing to see the value of art and only concerning themselves with commercial transactions. Looking at this novel and writings of the early 20's and understanding what would unfold in the next ten to fifteen years it detracts from an excellent novel. Hemingway is very anti-Semitic.
I'm reminded of Huckleberry Finn, one of my favorite American novels and road stories. While the core stories of both Finn and The Sun Also Rises lay out a vibrant vision of people and place at a specific point in history, the aspects of prevailing prejudice in these stories takes away from stories I want to love.
The Sun Also Rises is a great first novel. Although in this collection I learned it was really Hemingway's second novel. He cranked out the parody novel The Torrents of Spring in 10 days, mocking recent works of Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson, two of Hemingway's mentors. It's not clear if he wrote this work as a legitimate piece of humor or a way to maneuver out of a publishing contract. Hemingway's first publisher, Boni & Liveright, published Sherwood Anderson. Hemingway's contract gave Liveright the right of first refusal on Hemingway's first three work's, but if they rejected any of these works Hemingway had the option to exit the contract. Liveright chose not to publish Torrents a parody of one of their leading authors and Hemingway was free to move to another publisher. Charles Scribner's published The Torrents of Spring, The Sun Also Rises and all of Hemingway's future works.
Hemingway's autobiographical The Sun Also Rises describes life in post WWI Paris cafe society and the travels Hemingway loved as a free living 24 year old in the Basque and Pyrenees region of Spain and the bull-fighting fiesta in Pamplona. The alcohol fueled adventures depict a group of young people, most supported by family money, who want to put the burdens of war and rea life far away from them.
While I enjoyed The Sun Also Rises I had reservations about the way Hemingway's protagonists, described and related to the character Robert Cohn, a Jewish writer who is part of this circle. Repeatedly Hemingway uses Cohn's jewishness to stereotype this character's behaviors and motivations.
These reservations became troubling when I read the collection of Hemingway letters from 1918 to 1926 in the back of this collection. Hemingway repeatedly shows prejudice against Jews and calls out traditional stereotypes of Jews as miserly people failing to see the value of art and only concerning themselves with commercial transactions. Looking at this novel and writings of the early 20's and understanding what would unfold in the next ten to fifteen years it detracts from an excellent novel. Hemingway is very anti-Semitic.
I'm reminded of Huckleberry Finn, one of my favorite American novels and road stories. While the core stories of both Finn and The Sun Also Rises lay out a vibrant vision of people and place at a specific point in history, the aspects of prevailing prejudice in these stories takes away from stories I want to love.
May 2, 2021
A new collection of stories, novels, journalism, and letters from the early years of Hemingway’s career. It was good to reread some of his best fiction after many years. The newspaper articles and letters were mostly new to me and provide context for the fiction included here. As always with a Library of America edition, the editorial work and notes are outstanding.
August 18, 2023
Not only did this beautifully produced Library of America volume give me a chance to revisit two of Hemingway's greatest works ("In Our Time" and "The Sun Also Rises"), but through the other pieces included in this volume--including some of his early journalism, letters, and the truly awful "Torrents of Spring," gave me a much greater understanding and appreciation for what kind of person Hemingway was at that stage of his career and how his approach to fiction grew out of his personal and journalistic background. Indispensable for anyone who really wants to understand this giant of 20th century American literature, warts and all.
August 16, 2022
I tried and just can't get it.
August 13, 2023
Very descriptive...I may read again
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January 24, 2024dnf i did not like the formatting of this (real year 2023-24)
November 6, 2024
what is with this man and bullfighting?
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