A Moveable Feast (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A 1920s Paris Memoir of Lost Generation Writers, Left Bank Cafés, and the Making of a Modernist ArtistBy Ernest Hemingway
Length6h 36m
About this audiobook
A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway's luminous memoir of Paris in the 1920s, recalling the cafés, garrets, racetracks, and bookshops where modernist literature found one of its defining climates. Written in Hemingway's characteristically spare yet evocative prose, the book blends recollection, portraiture, and artistic credo. Its vignettes of figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Sylvia Beach situate it within the mythology of the "Lost Generation," while its deeper subject is the making of a writer through discipline, hunger, love, and memory. Hemingway composed and revised these sketches late in life, drawing on notebooks from his early Paris years with his first wife, Hadley Richardson. By then a Nobel laureate and one of the central prose stylists of the twentieth century, he looked back on youth with both tenderness and severity. The memoir reflects his lifelong concern with craft, masculine self-fashioning, and the costs of ambition, while also revealing regret over personal betrayals. This book is essential for readers interested in modernism, literary biography, or the romance and difficulty of artistic beginnings. It offers not merely nostalgia for Paris, but a disciplined meditation on how experience becomes art.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (39.1K)
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Moveable Feast (Annotated)
16Ford Madox Ford and the Devil’s Disciple
2Introduction
17Birth of a New School
3Synopsis
18With Pascin at the Dome
4Historical Context
19Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit
5Author Biography
20A Strange Enough Ending
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6Preface
21The Man Who Was Marked for Death
7Footnote
22Evan Shipman at the Lilas
8A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel
23An Agent of Evil
9Miss Stein Instructs
24Scott Fitzgerald
10“Une Génération Perdue”
25Hawks Do Not Share
11Shakespeare and Company
26A Matter of Measurements
12People of the Seine
27There Is Never Any End to Paris
13A False Spring
28Analysis
14The End of an Avocation
29Reflection
15Hunger Was Good Discipline
30Memorable Quotes
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