Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The text of Ernest Hemingway's best-known novel.
Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston.
A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully chosen to enhance the reader's understanding of and appreciation for Hemingway's prose style and his famous 1926 novel. Topics include "Biographical and Autobiographical Background," "Composition and Revision," "Letters," "On Postwar Paris and Expatriates," "On Bullfighting," and "Literary Influences."
Six major early reviews and ten recent critical essays.
A chronology of Ernest Hemingway's life and work and a selected bibliography.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
"This edition of The Sun Also Rises is to be celebrated. Michael Thurston has assembled materials so today's readers will appreciate the drama of the novel's composition, its reception and critical legacy, and its historical context making Hemingway's genius feel fresh and vital."--Mark Cirino, University of Evansville
About the Author
Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English at Smith College. His previous books include?Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars,?The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry, and?Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry?(with Nigel Alderman). He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and currently serves as Provost and Dean of the Faculty.?
Book Information
ISBN 9780393656008
Author Ernest Hemingway
Format Paperback
Page Count 372
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 309g
Dimensions(mm) 213mm * 130mm * 20mm
The text of Ernest Hemingway's best-known novel.
Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston.
A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully chosen to enhance the reader's understanding of and appreciation for Hemingway's prose style and his famous 1926 novel. Topics include "Biographical and Autobiographical Background," "Composition and Revision," "Letters," "On Postwar Paris and Expatriates," "On Bullfighting," and "Literary Influences."
Six major early reviews and ten recent critical essays.
A chronology of Ernest Hemingway's life and work and a selected bibliography.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
"This edition of The Sun Also Rises is to be celebrated. Michael Thurston has assembled materials so today's readers will appreciate the drama of the novel's composition, its reception and critical legacy, and its historical context making Hemingway's genius feel fresh and vital."--Mark Cirino, University of Evansville
About the Author
Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English at Smith College. His previous books include?Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars,?The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry, and?Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry?(with Nigel Alderman). He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and currently serves as Provost and Dean of the Faculty.?
Book Information
ISBN 9780393656008
Author Ernest Hemingway
Format Paperback
Page Count 372
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 309g
Dimensions(mm) 213mm * 130mm * 20mm
