The Sun Also Rises

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The Sun Also Rises first editionFirst edition, 1926

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The Sun Also Rises
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Author
Ernest Hemingway, United States

First publication
1926

Form
Novel

Genre
Literary

Writing language
English

Length
Approx. 68,000 words

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• Literature

• Novels

• American Literature

• Literary Fiction

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• Ernest Hemingway

• In Our Time

• The Killers

• A Farewell to Arms

• The Snows of Kilimanjaro

• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• The Old Man and the Sea

Notable lines

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by this as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.

— First lines

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

 

"No, that doesn't interest me."
"That's because you never read a book about it."

 

"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly.""

 

"That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality."

 

"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."

Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.

"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

— Last lines

 

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