A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.

Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.

Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.

Disappointing.

I read the Paris Wife and LOVED it and was excited to listen to this, Hemingway's point of view of the same time period.
I have to say the fiction was better than the non fiction.
I didn't find this entertaining at all to listen to, in fact, it was rather dull.

The truest moments of Hemingway’s fictional past

The man behind the stories invites you to breathe the air of the cafes in which he wrote the stories. Hemingway does not describe, but “makes” his past, including only the truest sentences he knows. Judge him not for what he has included but for what he has left out. Learn to listen and to write and to be happy. Share a bottle of Sancerre with him in a time when the skiing and the marriage and the writing is good. He is poor and he is cold, but the food is fine and the writing is good.

Hemingway reminiscing

The story is basically Hemingway reminiscing of his younger days. as an expat in Paris in Europe. You could hear the Deep angst. and regret that he had for ruining his first marriage. . He cuts right to the chase with his characters. And cuts deep with his own self reflection. . A very good listen That is well-read..

wonderful

loved this book. Beautiful to hear and listen to the stories They are rich with immages and emotion. Full of irony and life lessons.A fasinating glimpse of the past. Left me with great respect for the artist. A love story.

Perfect complement-Paris Wife & Midnight in Paris

Don’t let the Sample discourage you from listening to this wonderful book! The Sample—the forward and introduction—are presented by relatives of Hemingway, not the narrator J. B. Lloyd.

Lloyd does a wonderful job narrating this up-lifting Hemingway book. For a sample of Lloyd’s voice, check out Michael Crichton’s Micro: A Novel.

This story is a love story and a tale of regret—a tale of lessons learned from the altered and divorcee.

You hear Hemingway’s thoughts about himself, about the writing process, and about others including some of literature’s best: Fitzgerald, James, Ford, Gertrude Stein (It is no wonder why she didn’t talk with him after this book—showing that honesty in print isn’t always the best policy.).

A bonus is found at the end of the book: Hemingway’s revisions of a section. You hear how he edited a section of his work, over, and over again—the subtle changes towards perfection, Hemingway style.

This is a perfect complement to The Paris Wife and Midnight in Paris.

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