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Author: Ernest Hemingway
First Published: 1926
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The 1920’s
Setting: Paris, France, and Pamplona, Spain
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Roman à clef
Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Alienation, Paris, 1920’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Substance abuse, Anti-Semitism, Veterans, Spain or Spanish people, Bullfighting or bullfighters, Festivals
Locales: Paris, France, Pamplona, Spain

Robert Cohn, a Jewish writer living in Paris in the 1920’s. He and Jacob Barnes are friends, though Barnes delights in needling him. Cohn seems to mean well, but he has a talent for irritating all of his acquaintances. When Cohn meets Lady Brett Ashley, he immediately brushes off Frances Clyne, his mistress, and spends a few days at San Sebastian with Brett. He now feels that she is his property, though she plans to marry Michael Campbell. Cohn has the temerity to join a group from Paris (including Brett and Michael) going to the fiesta in Pamplona,...

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