WIth the publication of The Sun Also Rises in 1926, Ernest Hemingway had his first great success as a writer. This is the novel that spoke for what Gertrude Stein called the "lost generation," the young men and women who lived through the heady and uncertain period following World War I. Depicting a group of lively but aimless expatriates who travel across France and Spain-drink-ing, fishing, and going to the bullfights at the Pamplona fiesta-this book gained a special hold on the young Hemingway's contemporaries.