Ernest Hemingway
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Novels, Short Stories & Poems: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea…
e-artnow, 2021
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EAN: 4064066499457
Table of Contents
Across the River and into the Trees
Novels & Novellas
The Torrents of Spring
A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race
Part One. Red and Black Laughter
Part Two. The Struggle for Life
Part Three. Men in War and the Death of Society
Part Four. The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans
Author’s Final Note to the Reader
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
PART ONE
Red and Black Laughter
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation.
HENRY FIELDING
CHAPTER ONE
Yogi Johnson stood looking out of the window of a big pump-factory in Michigan. Spring would soon be here. Could it be that what this writing fellow Hutchinson had said, “If winter comes can spring be far behind?” would be true again this year? Yogi Johnson wondered. Near Yogi at the next window but one stood Scripps O’Neil, a tall, lean man with a tall, lean face. Both stood and looked out at the empty yard of the pump-factory. Snow covered the crated pumps that would soon be shipped away. Once the spring should come and the snow melt, workmen from the factory would break out the pumps from piles where they were snowed in and haul