The Sun Also Rises
The Authorized Edition
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4.0 • 666 Ratings
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Publisher Description
This authorized edition celebrates the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s first novel—a quintessential story of the Lost Generation—with an introduction by bestselling author Colm Tóibín.
“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).
Customer Reviews
Everything but the margins
The content is top-notch, of course. The margins on the block quotes were poorly implemented, though, causing the telegrams to appear overly narrow on the iPhone.
Great story; adequate eBook edition
FIVE stars for the story.
TWO stars for the eBook edition.
I'm not going to review the content of The Sun Also Rises. The value of the story and it's prose has been thoroughly established elsewhere.
This eBook edition is merely adequate, although I doubt there's a better one out there. Publishers have yet to figure out that it's not enough to scan in the book as is. I don't need extra blank pages; they add nothing. It would be fantastic to have a relevant dictionary, for example when I highlight poule, I want to see that's French slang for prostitute, not that there's no definition in the base dictionary.
Publishers need to get on the ball and make fresh, definitive eBook editions. This edition isn't that, but it does provide a largely error free, clean reading experience.
The Sun Also Rises
Perhaps, Hemingway's best work, The Sun Also Rises give you a feel for the 1920s from a different perspective.