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Fiesta
  • Published: 18 August 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099908500
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

Fiesta

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31 Jan 2023
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15 Sept 2022
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18 Aug 1994
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30 Sept 2012
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The early masterpiece from thr Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change.

When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Powerful, intense and magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius, and set him on the way to being one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century.
  • Published: 18 August 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099908500
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the child of a physician and a musician. After high school, he became a journalist with The Kansas City Star, before enlisting to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He returned home after a serious injury in 1918, but his military experience informed his fiction, especially A Farewell to Arms. He worked as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star during his first marriage, and over the next three marriages he would live in Paris, London, Key West, and Cuba. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction titles. On safari in Africa in 1952 he survived two plane crashes, though his obituaries ran prematurely. He lived on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Two trunks of his early work from Paris reappeared in 1957, and inspired him to write his memoir A Moveable Feast. He eventually committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.
portrait photo of Ernest Hemingway

Also by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms
A Moveable Feast
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Annotated Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview
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Praise for Fiesta

Remarkable, startling, disquieting

Spectator

Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced

New York World

Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid... It is American; it is literature; and it is a first novel by a genius

Evening News

It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame . . . This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature

New York Times (1926)

Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid ... It is American; it is literature; and it is a first novel by a genius

Evening News

Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced.

New York World