This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The text of Ernest Hemingway's best-known novel.
Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston.
A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully chosen
to enhance the reader's understanding of and appreciation for
Hemingway's prose style and his famous 1926 novel. Topics include
"Biographical and Autobiographical Background," "Composition and
Revision," "Letters," "On Postwar Paris and Expatriates," "On
Bullfighting," and "Literary Influences."
Six major early reviews and ten recent critical essays.
A chronology of Ernest Hemingway's life and work and a selected
bibliography.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton
Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for
undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts,
and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and
appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching
possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format,
Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
"This edition of The Sun Also Rises is to be celebrated. Michael
Thurston has assembled materials so today's readers will appreciate the
drama of the novel's composition, its reception and critical legacy, and
its historical context making Hemingway's genius feel fresh and
vital."--Mark Cirino, University of Evansville
