Franklin Library: ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SUN ALSO RISES: PARIS: BULLS IN SPAIN

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," a Limited edition, illustrated by Uldis Klavins, one of the GREATEST BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, published in 1979. Bound in navy blue leather, the book has burgundy moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, was an American novelist and short story writer and winner of the 1954 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE. Hemingway was married four times: Hadley Richardson, his second wife, an Arkansas heiress, Pauline Pfeiffer, third wife writer, Martha Gellhorn, and his fourth wife, Mary Walsh. Set in Paris, France, and Pamplona, Spain, "The Sun Also Rises," is the story of JAKE BARNES, LADY BRETT ASHLEY, ROBERT COHN, BILL GROTON, the Pamplona innkeeper, MONTOYA, and the bull fighter, PEDRO ROMERO---are all part of the "lost generation"----the label that Gertrude Stein gave the expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s. Jake, who was incapable of having sex from a war wound, is in love with Lady Brett Ashley, whose husband---an Englishman---was killed in World War I. Brett is a free spirit: she drinks in bars, wears fish net stocking, has sex with whomever she pleases, but she is a "Lady" and she considers Jake her best friend. Jake and Groton meet with Lady Brett and her fiancee in Pamplona, Spain, for the annual San Sebastian festival or the "running of the bulls." At the Hotel Montoya, the owner greets Jake, Harris, Mike Campbell, Lady Brett Ashley, Bill, and Robert Cohn---whom Mike calls a "steer." Lady Brett tells Mike to "shut up and try to show some breeding." He responds, "Breeding be damned. Who has any breeding, anyways, except the bulls? Aren't the bulls lovely?" Montoya really likes Jake because he is an "aficionado" and passionate about bull-fighting. Brett falls in "love" or heat and has sex with the young bull fighter, Pedro Romero. Ultimately, she decides to leave Romero because she does not want to "be a bitch." The novel ends with Jake and Lady Brett who sighs and says, "Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together." Jakes replies, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" 288 pages---a RARE title in this series! I offer Combined shipping.

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