The Sun Also Rises - by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of Hemingway's classic novel of postwar disillusionment, featuring an introduction by Amor Towles, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, and, special to this edition, thematically-related vignettes and short stories from Hemingway's collections In Our Time and Men Without Women

A Penguin Classic

It's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran working as a journalist, is hopelessly in love with charismatic British socialite Lady Brett Ashley. Brett, however, settles for no one: an independent, liberated divorcée, all she wants out of life is a good time. When Jake, Brett, and a crew of their expatriate friends travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, both passions and tensions rise. Amid the flash and revelry of the fiesta, each of the men vies to make Brett his own, until Brett's flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight.

This centennial edition of Hemingway's beloved first novel includes the bullfighting vignettes from his 1924 collection, In Our Time, and some of his most widely-anthologized stories--"The Undefeated," "In Another Country," "Hills Like White Elephants," "A Canary for One," and "Now I Lay Me"--from his 1927 collection, Men Without Women.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Review Quotes

"It is a testament to Hemingway's skill as a storyteller that nearly a hundred years after its publication, The Sun Also Rises remains deeply satisfying. . . . Despite the passage of the decades, we continue . . . to be attracted to the company of these bon vivants." --Amor Towles, from the Introduction

"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] themes he touches on--how to make sense of a time in crisis, how to find authenticity and meaning out of upheaval--are as pertinent as they've ever been." --The Wall Street Journal

"Hemingway's first, and best, novel . . . A literary landmark that earns its reputation as a modern classic." --The Guardian

"An absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative . . . A truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose." --The New York Times

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) wrote in a clear, spare, deceptively simple style that made him one of the most admired and imitated authors of the twentieth century. Born in Chicago, he traveled widely throughout his life, living in Italy, France, Spain, and Cuba, and reporting from the frontlines of World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. His best-known novels are The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. A year later Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Amor Towles (introduction) is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, The Lincoln Highway, Rules of Civility, and Table for Two. Born and raised in the Boston area, he now lives in Manhattan.

Ross K. Tangedal (editor) is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, contributing editor for the Hemingway Letters Project, and associate volume editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway (1934-1936).