The Torrents of Spring (1987)
THE TORRENTS
OF SPRING
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE TORRENTS OF SPRING
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES
BY-LINE: ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE DANGEROUS AETERNOON
DATELINE: TORONTO
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
THE FIFTH COLUMN AND FOUR STORIES
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA
THE HEMINGWAY READER
IN OUR TIME
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
A MOVEABLE FEAST
THE NICK ADAMS STORIES
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
THE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO AND OTHER STORIES
THE SUN ALSO RISES
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
WINNER TAKE NOTHING
THE
TORRENTS
OF SPRING
A Romantic Novel in Honor of the
Passing of a Great Race
by
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
And perhaps there is one reason why a comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
HENRY FIELDING
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
MACMILLAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK
Copyright 1926 Charles Scribner's Sons;
renewal copyright 1954 Ernest Hemingway
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899—1961.
The torrents of spring.
I. Title.
PS3515.E37T651987813′.5287-14448
ISBN 0-02-550750-8
First Scribners/Macmillan
Hudson River Edition 1987
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed in the United States of America
| CONTENTS | ||
| PART ONE | ||
| Red and Black Laughter | 1 | |
| Chapter One (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Two (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Three (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Four (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Five (not in original TOC) | ||
| PART TWO | ||
| The Struggle for Life | 25 | |
| Chapter Six (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Seven (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Eight (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Nine (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Ten (not in original TOC) | ||
| Author's Note (not in original TOC) | ||
| PART THREE | ||
| Men in War and the Death of Society | 49 | |
| Chapter Eleven (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Twelve (not in original TOC) | ||
| Author's Note to the Reader (not in original TOC) | ||
| PART FOUR | ||
| The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans | 71 | |
| Chapter Thirteen (not in original TOC) | ||
| Author's Note to Reader (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Fourteen (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Fifteen (not in original TOC) | ||
| Chapter Sixteen (not in original TOC) | ||
| Author’s Final Note to the Reader | 89 | |
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