Upon its publication in 1926, The Sun Also Rises confirmed Ernest Hemingway as a foundational figure of literary modernism and the voice of the “Lost Generation.” As F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby captured the glitter and underlying disillusionment of Jazz Age New York, Hemingway’s masterpiece dramatized the excesses and fractured psyches of British and American expatriates in Paris and Spain in the wake of World War I. Now, one hundred years after it first appeared, readers can rediscover this classic in a lavishly illustrated annotated edition that brings to life the allure of 1920s Montparnasse nightlife, the vibrancy of the Iberian countryside, and the frenetic energy of the corrida and the running of the bulls.

Featuring 140 illustrations and photographs and more than 200 illuminating marginal notes, this volume reveals how Hemingway translated real episodes, locations, and people directly onto the page, including his 1925 trip to Pamplona, beset by jealousies and rivalries. It also tracks the novel’s explosive reception and enduring cultural legacy, synthesizing the best that has been thought and written about the book over the past century.

The Annotated Sun Also Rises presents the Library of America corrected text of the novel, prepared by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon after careful study of manuscripts, typescripts, and printings from Hemingway’s lifetime. Additional features include an introduction by Adam Gopnik, two chapters cut by Hemingway at Fitzgerald’s urging, a detailed chronology of Hemingway’s life and career, and a selection of revealing letters about the composition, editing, and publication of the novel.

Robert W. Trogdon, editor, is professor of English at Kent State University. A scholar of twentieth-century American literature and textual editing, he has published extensively on the writings of Ernest Hemingway and served as an editor for The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker; he has written for the magazine since 1986. He has earned three National Magazine awards for essays and for criticism, and also a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. The author of numerous best-selling books including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City.