The Sun Also Rises (The Norton Library)

The Norton Library edition of The Sun Also Rises features the complete text of the first edition, first printing (1926). Verna Kale's artful introduction highlights how the novel is steeped in the recent history of World War I and explores how Hemingway uses the scandalous social lives of his characters to probe gender norms.

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About the author

Verna Kale is an Associate Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. She is the author of a biography of Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, part of the Critical Lives series; editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender; and co-editor, with Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel, of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6 (1934–1936).

Product details

• Authors: Ernest Hemingway
• Assisted by: Kale Verna (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781324045717
• ISBN: 978-1-324-04571-7
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Series: The Norton Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Satire, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary