The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel, published in October 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons. It follows a group of American and British expatriates in the years after the First World War, moving from the cafes of Paris to the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, where they fish, drink and watch the bullfights.

The narrator is Jake Barnes, a journalist whose war wound leaves him unable to consummate his love for Lady Brett Ashley, a British socialite who cannot commit to him. Around them are Robert Cohn, a writer obsessed with Brett, her bankrupt Scottish fiance Mike Campbell, Jake's witty friend Bill Gorton, and the young bullfighter Pedro Romero.

The novel opens with Gertrude Stein's line "You are all a lost generation", though Hemingway told his editor the book was less about a lost generation than about the earth abiding forever. It was first drafted under the working title Fiesta.