The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway’s novel, narrated by Jake Barnes, an American newspaperman in Paris wounded in the war, who travels with Lady Brett Ashley and a group of expatriate friends to the fiesta at Pamplona for the bullfights.

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Famous quotes

• Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?

  Book I, Chapter 2In context

  • Life & Death
  • Time

• You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.

  Book II, Chapter 12In context

  • Comedy
  • Work

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

  Book II, Chapter 13In context

  • Failure
  • Money

• “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?”

  Book III, Chapter 19In context

  • Love

Contents

1. Dedication

Book I

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7

Book II

1. Chapter 8
2. Chapter 9
3. Chapter 10
4. Chapter 11
5. Chapter 12
6. Chapter 13
7. Chapter 14
8. Chapter 15
9. Chapter 16
10. Chapter 17
11. Chapter 18

Book III

1. Chapter 19