Description

In 1923 journalist and budding fiction writer Ernest Hemingway penned eighteen original short stories and published them in the magazine The Little Review with the help of his friend Ezra Pound Hemingway would later add to this collection and republish the stories in 1925 under the same title and after adding an additional story would again republish the entire volume in 1930 again as in our time all in lower case This collection of short stories would mark one of the most auspicious and earthshattering debuts by an author in literary history and also introduced the world to the fictional character of Nick Adams a protagonist Hemingway would revisit repeatedly in his career
Hemingways success with this collection considered a masterpiece would soon lead to the creation of his first fulllength novel The Sun Also Rises which chronicles the journey of a group of young harddrinking expatriates as they travel from France to Spain and back again This groundbreaking book explores their lives their aspirations and their romantic entanglements set against a backdrop of 1920s postwar Europe and Spains thrilling and troubling national sport bullfighting
Within a few years Hemingway would become known as one of the most important voices of his generation and his stark prose lean and brutal at times would be imitated by generations of writers who followed him
Presented here is the expanded 1925 edition of In our time as well as the full manuscript of The Sun Also Rises Both volumes are as they were originally published and appear in this doubleset entirely unabridged