The Sun Also Rises
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First edition, 1926First publication
1926
Literature form
Novel
Genre
Literary
Writing language
English
Author's country
United States
Length
Approx. 68,000 words
Notable lines
Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by this as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.
— First lines
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
"No, that doesn't interest me."
"That's because you never read a book about it."
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly.""
"That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality."
"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
— Last lines
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