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In Our Time: (The 1924 Paris Edition)
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515444480
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Jan 20 2020
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First issued in Paris in 1924 in a limited edition of just 170 copies, In Our Time marked Ernest Hemingway's decisive emergence as a new voice in modern fiction.
This early Paris edition consists of a sequence of brief, arresting prose vignettes-moments of violence, dislocation, war, exile, and moral fracture-written with a stark compression that would come to define Hemingway's style. Set against the backdrop of the First World War, bullfighting arenas, and the unsettled landscapes of postwar Europe, these interlinked pieces capture the emotional aftermath of modern conflict with spare intensity.
Unlike the expanded 1925 American edition, the 1924 Paris printing contains only the short sketches that first introduced Hemingway's radical minimalism. The language is stripped to essentials. Dialogue is sharp and unadorned. Emotion is conveyed through omission as much as declaration. In these pages, the foundations of twentieth-century literary realism are being laid.
This Wilder Publications edition restores the 1924 Paris text in a clean, carefully formatted volume intended for readers, students, and collectors interested in Hemingway's formative work and the origins of modernist prose.
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