The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925
Description
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Striving to 'make it new, ' he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. In this period, Hemingway publishes his first three books, including In Our Time (1925), and discovers a lifelong passion for Spain and the bullfight, quickly transforming his experiences into fiction as The Sun Also Rises (1926). The volume features many previously unpublished letters and a humorous sketch that was rejected by Vanity Fair.Product Details
Price
$39.95
$36.75
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publish Date
September 30, 2013
Pages
604
Dimensions
6.5 X 1.5 X 8.9 inches | 2.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780521897341
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About the Author
Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961.
Sandra Spanier, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway and co-editor of the first four volumes. Her essays have appeared in Modern Critical Interpretations: 'A Farewell to Arms' (1987), New Essays on 'A Farewell to Arms' (Cambridge, 1990), Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (2002), and Ernest Hemingway in Context (Cambridge, 2013), and she serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review. Her books include Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015), Process: A Novel by Kay Boyle (2001) and Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles's rediscovered play, Love Goes to Press (1995; revised edition 2010).
Robert W. Trogdon is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Kent State University. He is co-editor, with Sandra Spanier, of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 1. He is the author of The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners and the Business of Literature (2007) and editor of Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference (2002). He is a member of the board of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society.
Albert J. DeFazio III, Term Professor at George Mason University, is author of Literary Masterpieces: The Sun Also Rises (2000), editor of Dear Papa ... Dear Hotch: The Ernest Hemingway/A. E. Hotchner Correspondence (2005), and Associate Editor of Volume 1 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. He has contributed bibliographies in The Hemingway Review, served on its editorial board, and edits The Hemingway Newsletter.
Reviews
"This expertly edited and annotated volume will be devoured by fans eager to learn how the literary titan came into his own."
Publishers Weekly
"Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful."
Literary Review
"The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for."
Star Tribune
"For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading."
The Kansas City Star
"Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful."
The Spectator
"Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project."
Buffalo News
"Never is Hemingway more fascinating or in flux than in these letters from his Paris years, that dark and dazzling confluence of literary ascendancy and personal maelstrom. Bravo to Sandra Spanier for giving us this dazzling gem of literary scholarship, and the young Hemingway in his own words - unvarnished, wickedly funny, mercilessly human."
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
"Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice ... devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable."
Library Journal
"This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself ... His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction."
The New York Times
"Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway ... It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsals of what would be public performances."
The Daily Telegraph
"The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited ... As a book, it is perfect."
Los Angeles Review of Books
"With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway's correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we've ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time ... readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude."
Booklist
"Most enjoyable ..."
The Tablet
"Amusing, moving and perceptive ... this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new."
The Times Literary Supplement
"The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic ... excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume ...Summing up: essential."
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Publishers Weekly
"Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful."
Literary Review
"The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for."
Star Tribune
"For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading."
The Kansas City Star
"Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful."
The Spectator
"Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project."
Buffalo News
"Never is Hemingway more fascinating or in flux than in these letters from his Paris years, that dark and dazzling confluence of literary ascendancy and personal maelstrom. Bravo to Sandra Spanier for giving us this dazzling gem of literary scholarship, and the young Hemingway in his own words - unvarnished, wickedly funny, mercilessly human."
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
"Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice ... devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable."
Library Journal
"This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself ... His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction."
The New York Times
"Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway ... It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsals of what would be public performances."
The Daily Telegraph
"The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited ... As a book, it is perfect."
Los Angeles Review of Books
"With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway's correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we've ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time ... readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude."
Booklist
"Most enjoyable ..."
The Tablet
"Amusing, moving and perceptive ... this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new."
The Times Literary Supplement
"The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic ... excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume ...Summing up: essential."
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