The Sun Also Rises (Hörbuch-Download, MP3)

On the surface, the novel is a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnesa man whose war wound has made him unable to have sexand the promiscuous divorcée usually identified as Lady Brett Ashley. Jake is an expatriate American journalist living in Paris, while Brett is a twice-divorced Englishwoman with bobbed hair and numerous love affairs, and embodies the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. Brett's affair with Jake's college friend Robert Cohn causes Jake to be upset and break off his friendship with Robert; her seduction of the 19-year-old matador Romero causes Jake to lose his good reputation among the Spaniards in Pamplona. Book One is set in the café society of young American expatriates in Paris. In the opening scenes, Jake plays tennis with Robert, picks up a prostitute (Georgette), and runs into Brett and Count Mippipopolous in a nightclub. Later, Brett tells Jake she loves him, but they both know that they have no chance at a stable relationship. Copyright © 1926 by Charles Scribner`s Sons Copyright renewed © 1954 by Ernest Hemingway©& IE Vorobev V.A.; ©& Publishing House Soyuz