Published: 1929 (Scribner) Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, reads like a long sip of whiskey that burns the throat while in the same turn calming the senses. Immersed in tales of the Italian Front of WWI, I read each short chapter staring out at a lake, fitting for a novel that is setContinue reading “A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway”
Category Archives: 1920’s
The Painted Veil-W. Somerset Maugham
Published: 1925 (Heinemann) Summary: W Somerset Maugham’s novel The Painted Veil is one of those novels that, while not having any real “shock value” or plot twists which are needed to sustain a certain readership, sustain the reader’s attention with perpetual sadness and disappointment. Not the disappointment in a character you learn to love, butContinue reading “The Painted Veil-W. Somerset Maugham”
The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway
Published: 1926 (Scribner) Setting: Paris, Bayonne, Burguete, Pamplona, San Sebastian, Madrid Summary: A bunch of lost souls galivant around Paris and the Basque country, drinking themselves into the ground, only to pick themselves up after a tight four-hour nap to party the next day. Jake is a cool customer, he may have lost his abilityContinue reading “The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway”
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