The Sun Also Rises

Nobody lives in Paris. They just wait for Spain.

Ernest Hemingway's first novel announced a new voice in American literature—lean, masculine, and devastatingly honest. It is the story of the Lost Generation, told by the man who gave them their name.

Jake Barnes, an American journalist in Paris, has been wounded in the war in a way that makes love impossible. He is in love with Lady Brett Ashley, a beautiful, reckless Englishwoman who loves him back—but cannot be with him. Together with a crowd of expatriate drunks, hangers-on, and the absurdly self-important Robert Cohn, they travel from the cafes of Paris to the bullfighting rings of Pamplona. There, in the heat and dust and danger of the fiesta, the characters drink, fight, and run with the bulls, trying to outrun the emptiness that the war left behind. Nothing changes. The sun also rises.

This is Hemingway at his most controlled and evocative: a novel about masculinity, impotence, courage, and the impossibility of finding meaning in a world that has lost its gods. The Sun Also Rises is not a happy book—but it is a great one.

• Named by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century

• Coined the term "Lost Generation" for the disillusioned post-World War I generation

• A defining work of modernist literature, with its spare prose and emphasis on action over explanation

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About the Author

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I—an experience that shaped much of his work. The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926, when Hemingway was just 27 years old, and it immediately established him as the voice of the Lost Generation. The novel is loosely based on a 1925 trip to Pamplona with friends, including the woman who inspired Lady Brett Ashley. His other major works include A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which won the Pulitzer Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway died by suicide in 1961. His spare, understated prose style—often called the "Iceberg Theory"—has influenced generations of writers.