The Sun Also Rises

This work is in the Canadian public domain, but may be under copyright in some countries. If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws. IF THE BOOK IS UNDER COPYRIGHT IN YOUR COUNTRY, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR REDISTRIBUTE THIS FILE. Title: The Sun Also Rises Date of first publication: 1926 Author: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Date first posted: June 6, 2015 Date last updated: June 6, 2015 Faded Page eBook #20150622 This ebook was produced by: Marcia Brooks, Al Haines, Paulina Chin & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net ERNEST HEMINGWAY The Sun Also Rises CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS New York Copyright, 1926, Charles Scribner’s Sons; renewal copyright, 1954, Ernest Hemingway All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons. Printed in the United States of America This book is for Hadley and for John Hadley Nicanor ”You are all a lost generation.” — Gertrude Stein in conversation ”One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. . . . The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose. . . . The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. . . . All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” — Ecclesiastes 1 Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton. There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym. He was Spider Kelly’s star pupil. Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. But it seemed to fit Cohn. He was really very fast. He was…