The Sun Also Rises.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Sun Also Rises.
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it” First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; From the library of Scribner's editor Adrian Homer Goldstone
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
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First edition, first issue of the first printing, with the misprint (“stoppped”) on page 181 line 26. Octavo, original black cloth. Copy given to American literary critic and editor Adrian Homer Goldstone with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Adrian Homer Goldstone was an American literary critic and editor best known for his long association with Charles Scribner’s Sons, where he served as a reviewer and literary advisor from roughly 1920 to 1935. In this influential role, Goldstone helped shape Scribner’s literary list during a formative period in twentieth-century American publishing, reading manuscripts, advising on editorial direction, and engaging closely with contemporary authors. He is most widely remembered today as the biographer of John Steinbeck, having written one of the earliest critical studies of Steinbeck’s life and work, published while the author’s reputation was still developing. Goldstone’s criticism is marked by its clarity, restraint, and attention to craft rather than theory, reflecting the values of interwar American letters. Books bearing his ownership marks or bookplate are of particular interest, as they attest to his central position within the literary and publishing networks of his time. In very good condition. A very nice example with noted provenance.
The Sun Also Rises was published by Scribner's in 1926, and a year later in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape under the title Fiesta. Though it initially received mixed reviews, it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" (Meyers, 1985). The fictional plot depicts a love story between war-wounded and impotent Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley, but the novel is a roman à clef; the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. Hemingway proposes that the "Lost Generation," considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was resilient and strong. Naturally, themes of love, death, renewal in nature, and the nature of masculinity are heavily investigated. For example, the characters engage in bull-fighting, which is presented as an idealized drama: The matador faces death and, in so doing, creates a moment of existential nothingness, broken when he vanquishes the possibility of death by killing the bull (Stoltzfus, 2005). The Sun Also Rises is seen as an iconic modernist novel for future generations (Mellow, 1992), although it has been emphasized that Hemingway was not philosophically a modernist (Reynolds, 1990). "The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation" (David Laskin).
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