The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) - Softcover

Ernest Hemingway

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9354990983 ISBN 13: 9789354990984

Publisher: GENERAL PRESS, 2025

Synopsis

What happens when a generation survives a devastating war but struggles to find a reason to live afterward? Ernest Hemingway’s 'The Sun Also Rises', a landmark modernist literary fiction novel, explores love, friendship, disillusionment, and the restless search for meaning among expatriates in 1920s Europe. At its heart is Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris who carries the emotional scars of World War I while trying to build a life around friendships, travel, drinking, and the complicated feelings he has for Lady Brett Ashley.

Jake and Brett share a deep attraction, but circumstances have made a conventional relationship between them painfully difficult. Their unresolved feelings form an emotional thread that runs through the novel as they move through a lively circle of friends and acquaintances. Among them is Robert Cohn, a novelist searching for purpose and affection; Bill Gorton, whose humor and companionship bring energy to the group; and Brett’s impulsive fiancé, Mike Campbell. Their conversations, arguments, romances, drinking sessions, and travels reveal a group of people who appear carefree on the surface but are often carrying private disappointments.

The story gradually moves from the cafés and nightlife of Paris to the excitement and tension of Spain, where the characters become immersed in the spectacle of the bullfights and the traditional festivities of Pamplona. Against this vivid setting, rivalries intensify, relationships become strained, and hidden emotions rise to the surface. Hemingway captures the beauty of the landscape and the thrill of travel while showing how easily pleasure can become a way of escaping pain.

Written in Hemingway’s famously restrained and understated style, 'The Sun Also Rises' says much through what its characters leave unsaid. Beneath its simple language lies a powerful portrait of a generation marked by war, uncertainty, lost ideals, and complicated desire. Its enduring appeal comes from the tension between the characters’ outward adventures and their inner struggles. If you want to understand why this classic novel remains one of Hemingway’s most influential works, Jake’s journey into love, loss, friendship, and self-discovery is well worth following.

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About the Author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and after high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926. After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two plane crashes that left him in pain and ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.

Edition details

• Publisher: GENERAL PRESS
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9354990983
• ISBN 13: 9789354990984
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256