A MOVEABLE FEAST - The Restored Edition

Hemingway, Ernest (foreword by Patrick Hemingway; edited by Sean Hemingway)

ISBN 10: 143918271X / ISBN 13: 9781439182710

Published by Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2009

(xvi) 240 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Contents are: Foreword by Patrick Hemingway; Introduction by Sean Hemingway; A Good Cafe on the Place St-Michel; Miss Stein Instructs; Shakespeare and Company; People of the Seine; A False Spring; The End of an Avocation; Hunger Was Good Discipline; Ford Madox Ford and the Devil's Disciple; With Pascin at the Dome; Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm; A Strange Enough Ending; The Man Who Was Marked for Death; Evan Shipman at the Lilas; An Agent of Evil; Writers in Schruns; Scott Fitzgerald; Hawks Do Not Share; and A Matter of Measurements; followed by Additional Paris Sketches: Birth of a New School; Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit; On Writing in the First Person; Secret Pleasures; A Strange Fight Club; The Acrid Smell of Lies; The Education of Mr Bumby; Scott and His Parisian Chauffeur; The Pilot Fish and the Rich; Nada y Pues Nada; Fragments; and Appendix: Concordance of Item Numbers for Additional Paris Sketches. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 235087

Synopsis:

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.

Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.

Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.

About the Author: Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. He has been called “the most important author since Shakespeare,” by John O’Hara in The New York Times Book Review. The publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. He died in 1961.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A MOVEABLE FEAST - The Restored Edition
Publisher: Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Thus.
Book Type: Book