Catalog / The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
(affiliate link)
Ernest Hemingway
American and British expatriates travel from Paris to Pamplona after World War I. The novel explores desire, disillusionment, and masculine identity.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0743297334
- ISBN-13
- 9780743297332
- ASIN
- 0743297334
Why was The Sun Also Rises challenged?
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1930. The novel was historically banned in Boston, Riverside, and San Jose.
The catalog records the scope as distribution. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was The Sun Also Rises banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · Distribution
The novel was historically banned in Boston, Riverside, and San Jose.
Historical local censorship cases listed by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is The Sun Also Rises banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1930. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was The Sun Also Rises challenged?
- The novel was historically banned in Boston, Riverside, and San Jose.
Related banned books
Same author or shared themes in the catalog.
Entry last updated .
Read an available edition
Affiliate link. The catalog never builds an Amazon URL from an ISBN.
(affiliate link)