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The Sun Also Rises
- 249 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1926
- 215 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway, following his experimental novel-in-fragments In Our Time (1925). It portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926, by Charles Scribner's Sons. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.
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Good for readers who want: a classic, a love story, and a book they can read free online.
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- Romance
- Historical fiction
- Spain
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- American Manuscripts
- Americans
- France
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