The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

“The Sun Also Rises” was Ernest Hemingway’s first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the

great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the

post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and

English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway’s evolving

style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the

flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankrupcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized

love, and vanishing illustions, this is the Lost Generation.