The Torrents of Spring.

Hemingway, Ernest

Edité par Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1926

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First edition of Hemingway's first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Ernest Hemingwayâ s first novel and third published book was preceded by Three Stories and Ten Poems and the collection of stories In Our Time. â Hemingway was planning a carefully engineered campaign for breaking his contract with Boni and Liveright and maneuvering to place his novel [The Sun Also Rises] with Scribnerâ s. The vehicle wasâ ¦ [the] satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, which was clearly calculated to cause problems with his publisher, since it was a deliberate parody of Sherwood Anderson [Boni and Liverightâ s best-selling author]. Boni and Liveright had the option on his next three books, one of which had to be a novel. If, however, they turned down the book that Hemingway submitted next, he was free of his obligations to the publisher and could go elsewhere.â Hemingway wrote Ezra Pound that he â had written â a funny bookâ â ¦ It was a satire on America, he claimed, â Probably unprintable but funny as hellâ ¦ Wrote it to destroy Sherwood [Anderson] and various othersâ ¦ Itâ s first really adult thing have done. Jesus Christ it is funnyâ ¦ It is a regular novel only it shows up all the fakes of Anderson, Gertrude [Stein], [Sinclair] Lewis, [Willa] Cather, Hergo [Joseph Hergesheimer] and all the rest of the pretentious faking bastardsâ ¦ I donâ t see how Sherwood will ever be able to write againâ (Mellow, Hemingway).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Torrents of Spring.
• Éditeur: Charles Scribnerâ s Sons, New York
• Date de parution: 1926
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • First Edition