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Oct 25, 2026, 10:21 AM

The lingering legacies of 'The Sun Also Rises' 100 years on

Ernest Hemingway's debut novel, about lost and wayward young people after World War I, turned 100 this week. We look at its legacy and how the book has aged.

by Andrew Limbong

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-5974093/the-lingering-legacies-of-the-sun-also-rises-100-years-on

The Sun Also Rises at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67138

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First-edition dust jacket cover of The Sun Also Rises, the second novel by the American author Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926 by Scribner's, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleo Damianakes.

A slumped figure in a draped tunic sits beneath bare branches before a dark circle, flanked by apples.