9781156237465

Charles Scribner's Sons

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781156237465

Paperback|9781156237465


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Charles Scribner's Sons books, Scribner's Magazine, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Have Space Suit-Will Travel, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, The Garden of Eden, To Have and Have Not, The Dangerous Summer, Death in the Afternoon, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, Charles Scribner IV, John Blair Scribner, Charles Scribner II, Arthur Hawley Scribner, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing, Charles Scribner III. Excerpt: The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of Fermin in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work," and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by the publishing house Scribner's. A year later, in 1927, the British publishing house Jonathan Cape published the novel in England with the title of Fiesta. Since then it has been continuously in print. Hemingway began writing the novel on his birthday (21 July) in 1925, finishing the draft manuscript barely two months later in September. After setting aside the manuscript for a short period, he worked on revisions during the winter of 1926. The basis for the novel was Hemingway's 1925 trip to Spain. The setting was unique and memorable, showing the seedy cafe life in Paris, and the excitement of the Pamplona festival, with a middle section devoted to descriptions of a fishing trip in the Pyrenees. Equally unique was Hemingway's spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations ...


ISBN-13

9781156237465

ISBN-10

1156237467

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0.15 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.08 In

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$14.14

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Paperback

Pages

34 pages

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Published On

2010-09-01



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