The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition

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“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 the 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, unrealized 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 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 the one of the greatest wr...

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16 reviews
Alejandro Gomez Espinosa
September 13, 2015
Such a boring book!! I started to read it because it is suppose to be one of Hemingway's best books but it is really boring. It takes around 100 pages for him just to describe how bullfighters are and how people get drunk during this holidays. I totally waste my time.
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Tim Compton
January 28, 2019
there's no real plot. just a bunch of thirty something Americans having fun in Europe during the 20s.
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Bri Banner
July 9, 2020
Such an amazing and powerful book, it shows the effects that war had on the lost generation and how the only thing these characters want is to find their everlasting happiness that doesnt end in the usual hangover, but the era that theyre in and the mental and physical injuries all the characters have faced will never allow them to find their true meaning and happiness. I totally reccomend this book.
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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. 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.
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 w...

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