The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway · 1926

Disillusioned American and British expatriates drift from Paris to the bullfights of Pamplona in the aftermath of the Great War.

Books mentioned in The Sun Also Rises (2)

• The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson: “Cohn had read and reread “The Purple Land.” “The Purple Land” is a very sinister book if read too late in life.”
• A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev: “It was one of the stories in “A Sportsman’s Sketches.” I had read it before, but it seemed quite new.”

Books that mention The Sun Also Rises (6)

• Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Hemingway essay: named as 'Fiesta (1926)'”
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: “I did the most difficult job of rewriting I have ever done there in the winter of 1925 and 1926, when I had to take the first draft of The Sun Also Rises”
• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises begins with the ironical observation that "Robert Cohn was once mid dleweight boxing champion of Princeton."”
• Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “the famous 'stoppped' on page 81, line 26, of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises”
• Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “From the American tent I admire the workaday but forceful prose of Theodore Dreiser, and of course the brilliance and economy of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.”
• On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín: “The opening chapters of Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, also take place in Paris”