If you are a fan of classic literature, it is likely that you keep your eyes peeled all the time, looking for that “next great read” you might have missed up until now. And the “next great read” you need to check out just might be Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” if you have somehow managed to miss out on it up until now!

Although “@@AMAZONTEXT;0743297334;The Sun Also Rises@@” – which was originally published in 1926 – is the second novel Hemingway published, many consider it to have truly been his first (after all, his only previous novel was “The Torrents of Spring,” which he wrote in order to force his first publisher to release him from his contract!). “The Sun Also Rises” was also the book that elevated Hemingway from a somewhat obscure writer to the person he later became.

Aside from this book having been significant to the career of one of the greatest American authors, it is also considered by many to be an excellent read! The book is set in Paris in the 1920s, shortly after the end of the first World War. This was a perfect setting for Hemingway to be writing about, as Paris – just after the end of the first World War, of course – is where he lived at the time!

The author Gertrude Stein called Hemingway and his fellow, younger writers the “lost generation,” and this book paints a parallel picture of the lives this “lost generation” led. While some say this book is about heartbreak and wanderlust and loss, and while others say this book is about nothing, it is truly about that lost generation. “The Sun Also Rises” – more than any other book written during that time – created a world that flawlessly explored the restlessness of the post-WWI world. And unlike any other writer before him, Hemingway paints a picture of this world using sparse prose and simple language.

In the history of American literature, few writers have been as influential as Hemingway, as he was the first writer to embrace a conversational tone of writing in place of the academic tone that was so prevalent at the time. But more than this book being the first great example of what literature was to become, it is also just plain fun to read!

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