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Published by The Paget Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0920348335ISBN 13: 9780920348338
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine mylar dust jacket. Harold Stearns was a prolific journalist and editor during the 20s and 30s and traveled to Paris in 1921 to become part of the expatriate community there. It was Stearns who encouraged New York publisher Horace Liveright to publish Hemingway's "In Our Time." While living in Paris, Stearns wrote for the Paris Tribune eventually penning a column in the paper on horse racing called "Peter Pickem." Stearns was known for his lack of funds while living in Paris and was always hitting up friends for money so much so that Hemingway used him as a model for the indigant Harvey Stone in his novel "The Sun Also Rises.".
Published by The Paget Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0920348335ISBN 13: 9780920348338
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy without the issued mylar dust jacket. Harold Edmund Stearns, critic and essayist, was a member of the American expatriate group in Paris in the Twenties along with other notable exiles Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates. Stearns was the model for the character Harvey Stone in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises. Stearns was known by his intimates as a "picturesque ruin" and what he left behind him in America was "the broken promise of a brilliant career essays in The New Republic, editorship of The Dial, prime mover of the famous iconoclastic symposium Civilization in the United States." He confesses in this autobiography, originally published as "The Street I Know," that he made a career of drink and an occupation out of borrowing money. For many chroniclers of the era, Stearns was the quintessential expatriate--a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature. While Stearns had primarily literary interests, his pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life took the form of rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination of them. First Printing of the First Trade Edition.
Published by Lee Furman Inc., 1935
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Near Fine tight copy in Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and creasing to the front panel. Stearns was a prolific journalist and writer who early in his career wrote for the New Republic and Dial magazine before moving to Paris in 1921 where he penned articles and columns for the New York Herald. Stearns symbolized the bitter emptiness, the bewildered desperation of the generation that had survived a war only to face a world bent on forgetting its political sins in lust and liquor, or whatever anodyne the moment might bring. Those strange futile years have been immortalized in the fiction of Hemingway and Fitzgerald; but here, in Stearn s narrative, they make their way into biography. No one has written more soberly about that drunken state of mind; no one has been more continent in describing these excesses; no one has romanticized less about the absurd romantic attitudes of the literary Bohemia.Stearns became the model for the character Harvey Stone in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.