Ernest Hemingway - Delphi Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway

The Complete Works of

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

(1899-1961)

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The Complete Works of

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

By Delphi Classics, 2016

Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway

First published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Delphi Classics.

Delphi Classics, 2016.

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Hemingways birthplace in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois

Hemingway as a baby

Hemingway, 1916

The Torrents of Spring was first published in America in May 1926 by Charlie Scribners Sons. Hemingway had a contract with the publisher Boni and Liveright, guaranteeing them rights to the authors next three books, with the understanding that if they were to reject a work then Hemingway would be able to terminate the agreement. The novelist completed the text in less than two weeks and submitted it to his publisher in December 1925. It was rejected by Boni and Liveright, which allowed Hemingway to break his contract and the novella was subsequently released by Scribners five months later. It has been suggested that the author wrote the book in an attempt to escape his contract, though this was denied by him and in his letters he demonstrated a great attachment to the text. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald believed the novella to be excellent and outstanding, although it has largely been considered by critics to be a much lesser work than Hemingways other novel published that same year, The Sun Also Rises.

The book was composed as a parody of Sherwood Andersons novel, Dark Laughter , which Hemingway believed to be a prime example of pretentious writing he found so appalling. He argued he was motivated by a desire to encourage his contemporary to produce better work, but it can be argued it was an unnecessary and unpleasant attack on a fellow author that had greatly helped him at the start of his career. The writer Gertrude Stein is believed to have ended her friendship with Hemingway over the publication of The Torrents of Spring , considering it be a cruel and mean-spirited assault on Anderson.

The plot of the novel centres on Yogi Johnson and Scripps ONeil, and their quest to find the ideal woman. It relates their travails as they attempt in different ways to attain the women of their desires, and the author sharply satirises and lambasts the overwrought lyrical romanticism he found so objectionable.

The first edition of the novel, 1926

Hemingways passport photograph, 1923

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.

The first edition of Dark Laughter, 1925

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation.

HENRY FIELDING

Yogi Johnson stood looking out of the window of a big pump-factory in Michigan. Spring would soon be here. Could it be that what this writing fellow Hutchinson had said, If winter comes can spring be far behind? would be true again this year? Yogi Johnson wondered. Near Yogi at the next window but one stood Scripps ONeil, a tall, lean man with a tall, lean face. Both stood and looked out at the empty yard of the pump-factory. Snow covered the crated pumps that would soon be shipped away. Once the spring should come and the snow melt, workmen from the factory would break out the pumps from piles where they were snowed in and haul them down to the G. R. & I. station, where they would be loaded on flat-cars and shipped away. Yogi Johnson looked out of the window at the snowed-in pumps, and his breath made little fairy tracings on the cold windowpane. Yogi Johnson thought of Paris. Perhaps it was the little fairy tracings that reminded him of the gay city where he had once spent two weeks. Two weeks that were to have been the happiest weeks of his life. That was all behind him now. That and everything else.