Published for the first time as Ernest Hemingway intended, his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published.
Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Sean Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful recollections of his own...
Foreword Patrick Hemingway XI
Acknowledgments XV
Introduction Sean Hemingway 1
1 A Good Cafe on the Place St.-Michel 15
2 Miss Stein Instructs 21
3 Shakespeare and Company 31
4 People of the Seine 35
5 A False Spring 41
6 The End of an Avocation 51
7 "Une Generation Perdue" 57
8 Hunger Was Good Discipline 65
9 Ford Madox Ford and the Devil's Disciple 73
10 With Pascin at the Dome 81
11 Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm 87
12 A Strange Enough Ending 91
13 The Man Who Was Marked for Death 95
14 Evan Shipman at the Lilas 101
15 An Agent of Evil 109
16 Winters in Schruns 113
17 Scott Fitzgerald 125
18 Hawks Do Not Share 153
19 A Matter of Measurements 161
Additional Paris Sketches
Birth of A New School 169
Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit 177
On Writing in the First Person 181
Secret Pleasures 183
A Strange Fight Club 193
The Acrid Smell of Lies 199
The Education of Mr. Bumby 203
Scott and His Parisian C...hauffeur 209
The Pilot Fish and the Rich 213
Nada y Pues Nada 221
Fragments 227
Appendix 1 Concordance of Item Numbers for Additional Paris Sketches 237
Notes 239Foreword Patrick Hemingway XI
Acknowledgments XV
Introduction Sean Hemingway 1
1 A Good Cafe on the Place St.-Michel 15
2 Miss Stein Instructs 21
3 Shakespeare and Company 31
4 People of the Seine 35
5 A False Spring 41
6 The End of an Avocation 51
7 "Une Generation Perdue" 57
8 Hunger Was Good Discipline 65
9 Ford Madox Ford and the Devil's Disciple 73
10 With Pascin at the Dome 81
11 Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm 87
12 A Strange Enough Ending 91
13 The Man Who Was Marked for Death 95
14 Evan Shipman at the Lilas 101
15 An Agent of Evil 109
16 Winters in Schruns 113
17 Scott Fitzgerald 125
18 Hawks Do Not Share 153
19 A Matter of Measurements 161
Additional Paris Sketches
Birth of A New School 169
Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit 177
On Writing in the First Person 181
Secret Pleasures 183
A Strange Fight Club 193
The Acrid Smell of Lies 199
The Education of Mr. Bumby 203
Scott and His Parisian Chauffeur 209
The Pilot Fish and the Rich 213
Nada y Pues Nada 221
Fragments 227
Appendix 1 Concordance of Item Numbers for Additional Paris Sketches 237
Notes 239