Paris in the twenties: Pernod, partics and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in lovc with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, scnsuous nature that she cannot change.

When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jakc must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Powerful, intcnse, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which cstablishcd Ernest Hcmingway as a writer of gcnius.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever... The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose... The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returueth again according to his circuits... All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.