Binding: Hardcover
Description: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 3: 1926 1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins legendary editor at Scribner's nurtured the young Hemingway's talent accepting his satirical novel Torrents of Spring (1926) in order to publish what would become a signature work of the twentieth century: The Sun Also Rises (1926). By early 1929 Hemingway had completed A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's letters of this period also reflect landmark events in his personal life including the dissolution of his first marriage his remarriage the birth of his second son and the suicide of his father. As the volume ends in April 1929, Hemingway is setting off from Key West to return to Paris and standing on the cusp of celebrity as one of the major writers of his time.
Title: The Letters Of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926 1929
Author(s): Hemingway Ernest, Trogdon, Robert W. (Kent State University, Ohio)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521897358
Pages: 731 Pages, 30 Plates, Black And White; 7 Maps
Publication Date: 10/14/2015
Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers