Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926. It was his first major novel and established him as an important voice of modern American literature.
The novel follows Jake Barnes and a group of expatriates traveling from Paris to Spain, where they attend the Festival of San Fermín and watch the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Its characters reflect the restless postwar generation that Gertrude Stein famously called the “Lost Generation,” a phrase Hemingway helped popularize through the book’s epigraph.
The novel’s title comes from Ecclesiastes, and its restrained prose became closely associated with Hemingway’s style. The Sun Also Rises is sometimes confused with A Farewell to Arms, another major Hemingway novel, but that book was published in 1929. The 1926 publication date places The Sun Also Rises near the beginning of Hemingway’s mature literary career.