The Sun Also Rises and Other Works

by Ernest Hemingway, Ken Mondschein (Introduction)

This leather-bound edition features Ernest Hemingway’s works from the early 1920s, including one of his most famous novels, The Sun Also Rises , as well as short stories and poems.

Ernest Hemingway’s first novel,  The Sun Also Rises , is also his most widely acclaimed. Set against the backdrop of Paris café society and the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, the novel focuses on the lives of American expatriates in the 1920s. Although the Lost Generation is often considered to have been damaged and dissolute in the aftermath of World War I, Hemingway portrays them as strong characters who are imbued with independence. This edition also includes Hemingway’s novella  The Torrents of Spring , the short story collection  In Our Time  (1925), and various other short stories, poems, and newspaper and magazine articles from the early 1920s. A scholarly introduction also examines Hemingway’s life and writing career, providing readers with a deeper understanding of his works, and the gilded edges and raised hubs of this leather-bound edition make it a must-have for any home library.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories

448 pages, Leather Bound

Published January 25, 2022

About the author

Ernest 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.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

FYI, I bought a copy that was printed in Cairo. So, the paging is off, and it only contains the sun also rises.

[Kostiantyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spain, holidays and corrida... I always loved the first two, but the last one didn’t interest me. After this novel, I'm obsessed with all three. So, if that was the goal, and I'm sure it was, then it was achieved.

Oh! How well he describes the preparation for corrida (not bullfight), going really deep into details. Want to see it by myself now! And drink wine from wineskins... Want to have one now! 5-liter, as in the novel. And the atmosphere... I need to read it a second time... but maybe not now.

The plot, the characters and everything else... The lost post-war generation, the consequences for the psyche and health... All this has faded. All of this left in the background in this work.

[Matthew Levy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some was great: Mondshein's intro, the sun also rises, torrents of spring, up to michigan, and some of in our time. Some was not, but that's the feature of collections ig.

I know Hemingway is famous for his writing style, but personally, I wasnt the biggest fan.

Also this is the most beautiful book cover I've seen in a long time

[Elvis Gregory-sayce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant
Stunning Writing
If U Want 2 B
A Writer
Read Hemmingway

It's A Simple As That

[Skippie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it because it's Derek Shepherds favourite book and it was very good.

[Tim Wakely · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are no if, buts or maybes - Hemingway is a fantastic writer.

[Joshua Friesen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Should be read at least once by everybody.