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The Sun Also Rises

By: Ernest Hemingway, Colm Toibin - introduction
Narrated by: William Hurt
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About this listen

 2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics

“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest Hemingway's status as the one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. A poignant look at disillusionment and angst, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most indelible characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.

The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is set during an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story lays bare themes of alienation and disenchanted youth.

Hemingway's first novel is “an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose” (The New York Times). 20th Century Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World War I

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The narrator made this a little bit of a suffering to listen to this story

Excellent story, mediocre narrator

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I long for a time when such things, and such people, are possible...sadly I feel that I missed it, and them.

I long for a time...

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A classic novel that stay forever. Fantastic narrator. Enjoyed it very much!

Excellent Book.

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Mr Hurt's Scottish accent really has to be heard to be believed. It is truly a thing of wonder. I'm sure I detected, Scotland, Ireland (North and South), Liverpool and, bizarrely, at one stage Somerset. As the Scottish character is really rather important this, as other people have said, tended to spoil the whole experience. A shame because the story is great.

Mr Hurt's Scottish Accent

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Accents are comically bad. Take you out of the story. Truly, I do not know why the narrator took this on if the only accent he can do convincingly is his own.

Do not listen if you are Scottish

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