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Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918–1926

Edited by Robert W. Trogdon

Library of America launches its long-awaited Hemingway edition with a landmark collection of writings from his breakthrough years, in newly edited, authoritative texts.

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Overview

Video 1925: The Scopes Trial, the Culture War, and Four American Masterpieces, with Brenda Wineapple
November 8, 2024

News Before and After: Bringing the Bullfighting Photos of Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon Back to Life
October 23, 2024

Story of the Week “In Another Country,” Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 2024

This long-awaited Library of America edition brings together for the first time in one volume the now legendary writings from Ernest Hemingway’s breakthrough years in Paris. Featuring newly edited texts and several previously uncollected writings, it reveals as never before the astonishing artistic evolution that led the young journalist and expatriate author to transform the short story and the novel and to perfect the famous prose style that has influenced writers ever since.

In his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst’s International News Service, Hemingway began to hone his gift for concise description. That journalism is represented here by a selection of thirty-one articles from 1920 to 1923, some never before republished, on subjects ranging from trout fishing to the rise of fascism in Italy. Hemingway’s exploration of new modes of storytelling is on display in two early stories, “A Divine Gesture” (1922) and “Up in Michigan” (1923)—the former reprinted here for the first time since its original publication—and in the rare Three Mountains Press edition of in our time (1924), a haunting series of vignettes of violence and alienation now recognized as a landmark of literary modernism.

At the center of this volume are Hemingway’s first three full-length works—the story collection In Our Time (1925), the scathing satirical novel The Torrents of Spring (1926), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). All are presented in corrected texts newly edited by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon. In Our Time introduces Hemingway’s alter ego, Nick Adams, and a wide range of characters, many drawn from life. “The End of Something,” “Soldier’s Home,” “Cat in the Rain,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” and the other celebrated stories in the collection retain their extraordinary vividness and an unsettling ability to make their spare economy of language bear the weight of all that is left unsaid. Set apart in Hemingway’s work by its tone of high-spirited nonsense, The Torrents of Spring, written in just ten days, is a bridge-burning parody of work by his mentors Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein. In The Sun Also Rises, based on his experiences in Paris and Spain, Hemingway solidified his role as the preeminent literary voice of the Lost Generation. This new text corrects numerous errors, restores key changes made to Hemingway’s original punctuation, and reinstates references to real people removed by his editor for fear of libel.

Rounding out the volume is a generous selection of letters to a brilliant array of correspondents, including Anderson, Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Sylvia Beach, Edmund Wilson, and Maxwell Perkins. A newly researched chronology and detailed notes offer vital context for understanding Hemingway’s many allusions to persons and events.

Robert W. Trogdon, editor, is professor of English at Kent State University. A scholar of twentieth-century American literature and textual editing, he has published extensively on the writings of Ernest Hemingway. He served as an editor for The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Project support for this volume was provided by David Michaelis, in honor of A. Scott Berg.

This volume is available for adoption in the Guardian of American Letters Fund.
News & Views

Video 1925: The Scopes Trial, the Culture War, and Four American Masterpieces, with Brenda Wineapple
November 8, 2024

News Before and After: Bringing the Bullfighting Photos of Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon Back to Life
October 23, 2024

Story of the Week “In Another Country,” Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 2024

News Forthcoming: Fall 2024
January 31, 2024

Story of the Week “Out of Season,” Ernest Hemingway
August 10, 2023
Table of Contents

SELECTED JOURNALISM 1920–1923
Taking a Chance For a Free Shave
Are You all Set for the Trout?
Fishing for Trout in a Sporting Way
Canuck Whiskey Pouring Into U.S.
When You Camp Out Do It Right
Chicago Never Wetter Than It Is To-Day
Condensing the Classics
On Weddynge Gyftes
A Canadian With One Thousand a Year Can Live Very Comfortably in Paris
The Mecca of Fakers Is French Capital
Prize-Winner Book Is Centre of Storm
American Bohemians in Paris a Weird Lot
Fascisti Party Now Half-Million Strong
A Veteran Visits the Old Front—Wishes He Had Stayed Away
A Paris-to-Strasbourg Flight Shows Living Cubist Picture
Constantinople, Dirty White, Not Glistening and Sinister
Bulgaria Bars Refugees From Crossing Frontier
A Silent, Ghastly Procession Wends Way from Thrace
Kemal To Make Turks’ Capital Dry As Powder
Refugee Procession Is Scene of Horror
British Lake In Black Sea Seen In Open Straits Move
Powers Agree On Exchange of Nationals
Mussolini, Europe’s Prize Bluffer More Like Bottomley than Napoleon
Getting into Germany Quite a Job, Nowadays
King Business in Europe Isn’t What It Used to Be
Little Welshman Lands Anxious to Play Golf
Bull Fighting Is Not a Sport — It Is a Tragedy
World’s Series of Bull Fighting a Mad, Whirling Carnival
Wild Gastronomic Adventures of a Gourmet, Eating Sea Slugs, Snails, Octopus, etc. for Fun
Learns to Commune With the Fairies, Now Wins the $40,000 Nobel Prize
Lots of War Medals For Sale But Nobody Will Buy Them

WRITINGS 1922–1924
“A Divine Gesture” (1922)
“Up in Michigan” (1923)
in our time (1924)

In Our Time (1925)
On the Quai at Smyrna
Indian Camp
The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife
The End of Something
The Three-Day Blow
The Battler
A Very Short Story
Soldier’s Home
The Revolutionist
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
Cat in the Rain
Out of Season
Cross- Country Snow
My Old Man
Big Two- Hearted River: Part I
Big Two- Hearted River: Part II
L’Envoi

The Torrents of Spring (1926)

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

SELECTED LETTERS 1918–1926

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