The Sun Also Rises
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- First published
- 1926
- Pages
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Book 1, Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Book 2, Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Book 3, Chapter 19
38:14
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About this book
Ernest Hemingway's first novel gathers a group of American and British expatriates who drift through Paris cafes before heading south to the bullfights at Pamplona. At the center is Jake Barnes, a journalist left impotent by a war wound, and Lady Brett Ashley, the woman he loves and cannot have. Around them a restless circle drinks, quarrels, and chases distraction, their aimlessness standing in for a generation hollowed out by the First World War. Written in the spare, understated prose that made Hemingway famous, the 1926 book gave the Lost Generation its defining portrait and remains one of the great American novels of disillusionment.
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Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton. There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym. He was Spider Kelly’s star pupil. Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. But it seemed to fit Cohn. He was really very fast. He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanently flattened. This increased Cohn’s distaste for boxing, but it gave him a certain satisfaction of some strange sort, and it certainly improved his nose. In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles. I never met anyone of his class who remembered him. They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion.
I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly. Spider Kelly not only remembered Cohn. He had often wondered what had become of him.
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Book facts
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1926
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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