Production

Read by: KevinS
Book Coordinator: KevinS
Meta Coordinator: Ann Boulais
Proof Listener: Larry Wilson

Artwork

Cover: Design inspired by the first edition dust jacket cover of The Torrents of Spring, 1926
Inset: Ernest Hemingway passport photo, 1923
Insert background: Illustration from "Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West", 1912, Thomas D. Murphy

Track Title / Length

1         01 - Part 1, Red and Black Laughter, Chapters 1-5 0:34

2         02 - Part 2, The Struggle for Life, Chapters 6-10 0:33

3         03 - Part 3, Men in War and the Death of Society,

                        Chapters 11 and 12 0:31

4         04 - Part 4, The Passing of a Great Race and the Making

                        and Marring of Americans, Chapters 13-16, Author's Final

                        Note to the Reader 0:30



"The Torrents of Spring," a novella published in 1926, is a hilarious satire on the romantic and literary conventions of the Chicago school of literature. It is Hemingway's first long work and was written as a parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter.

Set in northern Michigan, the story concerns two men who work at a pump factory: World War I veteran Yogi Johnson, and writer Scripps O'Neill. Both are searching for the perfect woman, though they disagree over this ideal. The story begins with O'Neill returning home to find that his wife and daughter have left him. O'Neill, desperate for companionship, befriends a British waitress, Diana, and immediately asks her to marry him. She tries to impress him by reading New York Times bestsellers, to no avail. O'Neill leaves her for another waitress, Mandy, who enthralls him with her store of dubious literary anecdotes. 

Yogi Johnson frets that he doesn't desire any woman, even though spring is approaching. He is cured of his impotence when he falls in love with an Indigenous American woman who enters a restaurant clothed only in moccasins. Viewing her, he is overcome by "a new feeling" which he attributes to Mother Nature, and together they "light out for the territories."

It was widely believed that Hemingway wrote The Torrents of Spring to get out of his contract with his publisher, Boni & Liveright. Written in ten days, Hemingway submitted the manuscript early in December 1925. it was rejected by the end of the month and in January 1926, Max Perkins at Scribner's agreed to publish it in addition to Hemingway's future work.


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EAN - DVD case 0674012595801
EAN - CD jacket 0674012595795
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case, CD jacket, CD security sleeve, download
Author Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Year 1926
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Read by KevinS
Length 2 hours and 9 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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