A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway📖

Summary of A Moveable Feast

In “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway recounts his years spent in Paris during the 1920s. The book describes his marriage to his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and his relationships with other aspiring writers in Paris at the time, including James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and the so-called ‘Lost Generation’ American writers Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, and T. S. Eliot.

Reasons to read A Moveable Feast

“A Moveable Feast” is not a work of fiction but rather Hemingway’s memoirs of his years in Paris, edited by his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, and published posthumously after his suicide. The book offers a vivid portrayal of Paris in the 1920s, with its cafés, bars, and the ‘Shakespeare and Company’ bookstore frequented by Hemingway and his fellow writers. “A Moveable Feast” will inspire readers interested in the inside stories of the English-language literary circles in 1920s Paris. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Some of his notable books include “Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises”, “A Farewell to Armes”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, and “The Old Man and the Sea”.

Setting: Paris (France)

Original title: A Moveable Feast

Year of publication: 1964

Nr of pages: 256