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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

No. 33 in Mavenhill Classics, this annotated edition presents Ernest Hemingway’s landmark first novel, with a foreword by Maven Hill and clear, spoiler-free chapter summaries. Paris, 1925. Jake Barnes, an American newspaperman wounded in the war, drifts through the cafés and bars of the Left…

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