The esteemed critic Harold Bloom puts The Sun Also Rises on a short list of modern American novels that appear certain to endure. Ernest Hemingway’s classic tale hinges on issues of conflict, masculinity, and desire in its indelible portrait of lives caught in the grip of the Spanish civil war. This new edition of critical essays in Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations series is intended for in-depth study and features a chronology of Hemingway’s life, a bibliography of his works, and an index.