The Sun Also Rises: And Stories from In Our Time and Men Without Women (Centennial Edition)

ISBN: 0143139363

Author: Hemingway, Ernest

Condition: New

For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of Hemingways 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 WomenA Penguin ClassicIts 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 Bretts flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight.This centennial edition of Hemingways 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.