Quicklet on Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring

ABOUT THE BOOK

Published in 1926, "The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race" is Ernest Hemingway's first published novel. Prior to this novel, Hemingway published two collections of short stories: "Three Stories and Ten Poems," published in 1923, and "In Our Time," which was published in Paris in 1924 and then in the United States in 1925.

Perhaps the most important context from which to read "The Torrents of Spring" is that of Hemingway's contemporar...