Author: Ernest Hemingway
Year: 1964
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Classic, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Free books, Travel
Culture: France
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ISBNs:
9781439182710
143918271X |
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Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's
captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the
Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed
Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of
and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel
and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.
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