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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 2010-07-20
Paperback : 256 pages
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, remains one of his most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. ...
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(Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, remains one of his most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published.

This volume features a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway. Also included are a number of unfinished, never-before-published sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack; his first wife, Hadley; F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Ford Madox Ford, as well as insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. This restored edition brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.

In Hemingway's Own Hand

Take a look at two consecutive handwritten manuscript pages from Chapter 2, ?Miss Stein Instructs.?
(Ernest Hemingway Collection, Manuscripts, A Moveable Feast, Item 131, pp. 3-4, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.)

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  "The Moveable Feast"by Kathryn S. (see profile) 07/26/12

we read this along with The Paris Wife to obtain a full understanding of Heminways life in the 1920's and the life in Paris. Learned a lot but found Hemingway's book a bit plodding and some of our readers... (read more)

 
  "A Moveable Feast"by Eydie Ann J. (see profile) 08/21/11

I really didn't understand the idea of this being a novel. It felt more like a group of short stories. In the uneditted addition it seemed even more scatterred and more like a study of Hemingways writing... (read more)

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