On Monday, in Pamplona, Spain, they had the annual running of the bulls immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 classic “The Sun Also Rises.” Recently, Scribner announced that it will be releasing later this month a new edition of the novel. Included in this release will be a discarded first chapter along with earlier drafts and alternate titles. Originally, Hemingway opened his novel by introducing the beautiful Lady Brett Ashley. He begins with “This is a novel about a lady.” Robert Cohn and his boxing career at Princeton were not mentioned in the original manuscript and don’t appear until the final galleys.
In addition, this new printing will include an account of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, photographs and a typewritten draft of another alternate first chapter focusing on the bullfighter Pedro Romero and written in third-person, instead of the first-person narrative that Hemingway ultimately chose.
Scribner is publishing this addition with the cooperation of the author’s estate. Patrick Hemingway, the only surviving son, believes that this edition “makes for more pleasurable reading and perhaps understanding.”