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by Ernest Hemingway (Author), Michael Thurston (Editor)
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
