'Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice … devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable.'
William Gargan
Source: Library Journal
'With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway’s correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we’ve ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time … readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude.'
Steve Paul
Source: Booklist
'The letters to Pound - Hemingway's most important mentor in this period - are highlights of this volume. Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful.'
Source: Literary Review
'Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway … It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsal of what would become public performances.'
Source: The Daily Telegraph
'Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful.'
Source: The Spectator
'Most enjoyable …'
Source: The Tablet
'This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself … His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction.'
Source: The New York Times
'The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for.'
Source: Star Tribune
'For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading.'
Source: The Kansas City Star
'Amusing, moving and perceptive … this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new.'
Source: Times Literary Supplement
'The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited … As a book, it is perfect.'
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
'Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project.'
Source: Buffalo News
'The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic … excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume …Summing up: essential.'
Source: Choice
'… this volume will most likely never be superseded. It is crucial contribution to literary history.'
Mark Ott
Source: American Literary History
