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Oct 2023
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ~...

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway audiobook. Genre: drama The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period of social life that ranges from Paris to locatio ... Show More
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