The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934
1932–1934

This collection of letters, 85 percent of them previously unpublished, constitute a rich self-portrait of the artist and a vivid eyewitness chronicle of the twentieth century.

Ernest Hemingway (Author), Sandra Spanier (Edited by), Miriam B. Mandel (Edited by)

9780521897372, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 June 2020

840 pages, 16 b/w illus.
23.5 x 16 x 5.1 cm, 1.44 kg

'Cambridge and the editors have produced a 'damned good', magisterial work on one of the most complicated and skilful writers in English, and scholars and book lovers will eagerly await the twelve or more volumes to come.' Austin Long, The Review of English Studies

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take Nothing. During this intensely active period, Hemingway hunts in Arkansas and Wyoming, fishes the waters off Key West and Cuba, revisits Madrid and Paris, and undertakes a long-anticipated African safari. He witnesses transitions at home and abroad: the deepening Great Depression, Prohibition-era rumrunning, revolution in Cuba, and political unrest in Spain. His readership and celebrity continue to expand as he begins writing for the new men's magazine Esquire. As the volume ends, Hemingway has just acquired his beloved boat, Pilar. The letters detail these events as well as his relationships with his family, friends, publishers, critics and literary contemporaries including editor Maxwell Perkins, Archibald MacLeish, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Together the letters paint an intimate self-portrait of this multi-faceted, self-confident, energetic artist in his prime.

List of plates
List of maps
General editor's introduction
Acknowledgments
Note on the text
Abbreviations and short titles
Introduction to the volume
Chronology
Maps
The Letters 1932–May 1934
Roster of correspondents
Calendar of letters
Index of recipients
General index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: general [DSB], Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]