The Torrents Of Spring by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Torrents of Spring examines writers and their way of life. Released in 1926, the same year as The Sun Also Rises, the entertaining story of Yogi Johnson and Scripps O’Neill is often overlooked in favour of the Nobel Prize winner’s later works.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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⭐This was a weird story. There seemed to be no plot. Just a random tale of what a few people did during a certain time in history.

⭐The only other Hemingway novel I have read is ‘Fiesta’. There is something about Hemingway that seems to be illusion for me – the ease of the reading, the detail of the observation. As if, perhaps, his works are more like viewing a painting rather than reading a novel.When I first read ‘Fiesta’ I was linked with the book by an early reference in it to W H Hudson – one of my favourite writers. When I read ‘Fiesta’ a second time (and reviewed it for Amazon) I was intruiged by another literary reference that had meant nothing to me on my first reading – Ivan Turgenev. What intruiged me even more was that Hemingway had written this novel – ‘The Torrents of Spring’ – and Turgenev had written a novel called (in English translation)’Spring Torrents’.But Hemingway is nothing like Turgenev, although the penultimate chapter did bring me some reminders. And then the literary references grabbed me again as Hemingway refers to Huysmans whose ‘Against Nature’ appealed to me greatly.As Spring approaches in ‘The Torrents of Spring'(firstly with a false chinook) changes occur in a number of character’s lives – recoveries, disappointments, brief pleasures, radical – if temporary – alterations. Sometimes the changes are slow and dreaded, sometimes they are abrupt and unexpected. Whatever the case, life does go on – dreamily it seems to me. Turgenev’s idea of a torrent much more closely matched my understanding of the word than Hemingway’s.Hemingway is easy to read. You will probably enjoy this light and amusing novel. I am less sure that it will be memorable. Not in the way Turgenev’s ‘Spring Torrents’ is.

⭐This isn’t a novel that would be very enjoyable to someone who doesn’t have much experience with other literary works of the 1920s. Read alone it is pretty silly and vulgar. Read -after- you have finished Sherwood Anderson’s _Dark Laughter_, however, this book is very funny. Hemingway spoofs both Anderson’s style and his silly plot. And throughout, EH offers a treatise on the art of parody. The book is very short, and tightly controlled by Hemingway (something Anderson didn’t get right with Dark Laughther). The book is also interesting for those invested in the perennial Hemingway was/was not a racist argument. Read alone, the bits about Indians would be highly offensive, but read in light of Anderson’s horrifying primitivism and liberal use of the N-word in Dark Laughter, Hemingway’s depiction of the Indians is really a chastisement of Anderson’s silly racist story. Hemingway’s complex sense of humor, visible in his other novels under the surface, is fully on display here. Too bad time has eradicated a fuller understanding of all the jokes. I recommend this book for Hemingway aficionados and for students of modernism who need a wake-up call about Hemingway’s place (and his understanding of that place) in the modernist canon.

⭐I like this story because it is a quick, one day read! It was easy to follow and all the characters were cool! It seems like there were life lessons woven into the characters & events!Somehow I am a little bit better as a human being by reading an Ernest Hemingway book! Thanks, Papa Hemingway!

⭐To start, this is my second Hemingway book I’ve read. I read The Sun Also Rises and it was awesome. I really enjoyed it. So I wanted to read more by him. The first half of this book was not good. Just rambled. The second half is good. I’ve read other reviewers that talk about it being funny and a slam against other authors of the time. I’m not an English major, just a person who likes to read. This was not an enjoyable book to read because it just rambles….and then ends.I marked this as a 3 star because the second half redeems it…a little. I am still going to read the other books Mr. Hemingway wrote.

⭐This was the book written by Hemingway for the purpose of getting out of his publishing contract with one publisher so he could contract with Scribner’s. If one reads with that knowledge in mind it is even more enjoyable because it is a literary dare and brazen. No holds barred and the author occasionally talks to the reader (!!) in the middle of drama. I laughed out loud more than once and couldn’t put this little book down until I finished it.

⭐This was a gift for my mom. It arrived promptly and was in the condition I expected for a used book. She enjoyed the book, so all is well. The only downside is that I didn’t pay attention to how many pages the book had since it was a gift and I was going to be stuck buying it anyway. It has less than one hundred pages, so even used, it’s an expensive little book. Thanks Hemingway, for being so brilliant that price inflation continues on your books decades after your death.

⭐Worth the time to read. A legend in his own and a traveller drew me to start reading his books. Not disappointed.

⭐I have many Hemingway books but this one is great . So easy to pick up . the short stories are facinating and typical Hemingway skill

⭐Was surprised and pleased how easyit was to get one of my favourite reads on Amazon Kindle. It pretty much loaded itself. Thanks PH.

⭐Definitely a book.

⭐One of the early writings and not really the same lavel like later book of Hemingway. Still it was nice to read and a good chunk for a flight or train trip

⭐Lectura

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