With the fiesta behind him, Jake escapes alone to San Sebastián — cold water, quiet days, a little order restored. Then a telegram: Brett is alone and in trouble in Madrid. He goes to her at once. She has sent Romero away — she will not be the one to ruin a fine young man — and now, broke and shaken, she has only Jake. Over a last drink and a slow taxi through the traffic comes the most famous closing line in modern American fiction.

The final chapter of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. Thank you for listening to the whole book — follow the show for more full-length classics.

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📝 Source: from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (public domain)

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The last day of the fiesta. Three matadors take the sand — the fading Belmonte, the steady Marcial, and Romero, battered by Cohn's fists yet fighting with a purity no one there has ever seen. He dedicates a bull to Brett and kills it perfectly — and then the two of them are gone, off to Madrid together. The rockets fizzle out, the crowds thin, and the friends drift apart as the fiesta dies.

Chapter 18 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularly — follow so you never miss the next.

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📝 Source: from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (public domain)

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Something in Robert Cohn finally snaps. Outside the café he drops Jake and Mike with his fists, then climbs to Romero's room to beat the boy senseless — but the young matador will not stay down, rising again and again until Cohn breaks and weeps. By morning Cohn has left Pamplona. In the streets a man is caught and killed in the run of the bulls, and that afternoon Romero kills the very same bull — and its ear is carried away by Brett.

Chapter 17 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularly — follow so you never miss the next.

📖 Produced by ClutchCut Studio

🎵 Sound design & mix: ClutchCut Studio; ambient string beds from the ClutchCut Music Library

📝 Source: from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (public domain)

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🎬 Visuals & more shows: https://www.clutchcut.studio/podcasts