The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway | Full Audiobook, Chapter by Chapter
This podcast presents Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises as a full audiobook, released chapter by chapter. It follows Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, and their circle of expatriates from 1920s Paris to the bullfights and fiesta in Pamplona. The story explores love, longing, and life adrift after the Great War in Hemingway's spare, luminous prose. New chapters are added regularly as an immersive, distraction-free reading of the classic.
Episodes
Chapter 19 — Isn't It Pretty to Think So?
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 clo
Chapter 18 — The Fiesta Ends
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.Cha
Chapter 17 — The Fight
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 b
Chapter 16 — Brett and the Matador
Rain sweeps the fiesta, and the danger moves indoors. Old Montoya fears for Pedro Romero — the pure young matador the foreign crowd could ruin. At dinner Brett can't take her eyes off him; Mike, deep in drink, turns cruel on Cohn; and Brett, unable to stop herself, asks Jake for the one favor he shouldn't grant. By night's end she has gone off with the boy.Chapter 16 of Ernest Hemingwa
Chapter 15 — The Fiesta Begins
The fiesta of San Fermín erupts — seven days and nights of wine, drums, and dancing that swallow the town whole. Bulls thunder through the streets at dawn, the first corridas fill the ring, and a beautiful nineteen-year-old matador named Pedro Romero steps onto the sand. Brett can't look away — and soon, neither can anyone.Chapter 15 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full.
Chapter 14 — How to Live
A sleepless, drink-blurred night, and Jake takes stock — of money and morality, of what you pay for what you get, of Brett and Cohn and how a person is supposed to live. A quiet, searching pause before the fiesta breaks over them all.Chapter 14 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularly — follow so you never miss the next.Made with ClutchCut Studio.
Chapter 13 — Mike Campbell
Back to Pamplona and the gathering storm. Jake and Bill rejoin Brett — and meet her fiancé, Mike Campbell: charming, broke, and dangerous when he drinks. The prize bulls are unloaded, Jake explains the deadly art to come, and Mike, sensing Cohn's devotion to Brett, begins to sharpen his knives.Chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularl
Chapter 12 — The Irati
Days of trout streams and easy friendship. Jake and Bill fish the Irati, trade the funniest and most tender banter in the whole novel, share wine with an Englishman named Harris, and — for a little while — are perfectly, uncomplicatedly happy. Then the letters arrive, and the world calls them back.Chapter 12 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularl
Chapter 11 — Into the Mountains
Up into the hills by bus, wedged among Basque farmers passing wine-skins hand to hand, singing, insisting Jake and Bill drink along. The road climbs into cool green country, far from Brett and the whole Paris knot, to a little inn at Burguete. One of the book's warmest, simplest stretches.Chapter 11 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularly — f
Chapter 10 — Pamplona
Pamplona at last — but the plan wobbles. Brett and Mike are delayed, and Cohn, who can't hide how badly he needs to see Brett, chooses to wait for them rather than fish. Jake and Bill leave him to his nerves and set off for the mountains. The calm before the fiesta.Chapter 10 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularly — follow so you never miss
Chapter 9 — South to Spain
Jake and Bill head south toward Spain — and Robert Cohn, restless and evasive, insists on coming too. On the train: a crush of cheerful American pilgrims, the slow roll into Basque country, and the first hint that Cohn's summer has held a secret. The tangle they left in Paris is coming with them.Chapter 9 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regular
Chapter 8 — Bill Gorton
A new arrival lightens everything: Bill Gorton — funny, warm, and gloriously hungover from a spree across Europe — blows into Paris. He and Jake wander the city and lay their plans: trout fishing in the Spanish hills, then the fiesta at Pamplona, with Brett and her fiancé Mike to follow. Book Two, and the trip south, begins.Chapter 8 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New
Chapter 7 — The Count
Brett arrives at Jake's flat on the arm of Count Mippipopolous — a rich, worldly old soldier who has been everywhere and knows how to live. Champagne flows, the count philosophizes, and for a moment the night glitters. But underneath runs the same ache: Brett is leaving, she loves Jake, and neither can do a thing about it. Book One closes in Paris.Chapter 7 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Al
Chapter 6 — Frances
An afternoon at the café turns cruel. While Jake waits in vain for Brett and trades barbs with the broke, brilliant Harvey Stone, Frances corners him with a grievance of her own — then, in front of everyone, quietly dismantles Robert Cohn for casting her aside. A small, merciless scene about pride, money, and being thrown over.Chapter 6 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. N
Chapter 5 — Cohn in Love
Robert Cohn can't stop thinking about Brett. Over lunch, Jake watches his friend fall — asking questions, idealizing her, bristling when the answers aren't what he wants to hear. Jake tells him the truth about who Brett is and where her heart already lies, but a man in love hears only what he wants.Chapter 5 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released
Chapter 4 — The Taxi
A taxi through the Paris night — and the ache at the center of the whole novel. Alone with Brett at last, Jake feels how much they want each other, and why they can never be together. Later, back in his room long after midnight, the day's careless armor falls away: Jake lies awake with his war wound, his memories, and his love for Brett, and for once he can't stay hard-boiled about any of
Chapter 3 — Lady Brett Ashley
Paris after dark. Jake drifts from café to dance hall, picks up a girl named Georgette, and lands at a crowded bal musette — where a woman arrives who changes everything: Lady Brett Ashley, beautiful, close-cropped, and utterly herself. In this chapter Hemingway brings his heroine on stage, and we feel at once what she is to Jake. By the end of the night, the two of them slip away together into th
Chapter 2 — The Purple Land
Robert Cohn grows restless. After a mildly successful first novel goes to his head, he devours W. H. Hudson's romance The Purple Land and starts dreaming of running off to South America — and he wants Jake to come with him. In this chapter, Jake watches his friend's romantic delusions harden into discontent, and offers a truth Cohn can't hear: you can't get away from yourself by mo
Chapter 1 — Robert Cohn
"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton." So begins Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. In this opening chapter, narrator Jake Barnes introduces us to Robert Cohn — the proud, insecure ex-boxer and would-be writer whose restlessness will ripple through everything to come — sketching his Princeton years, his marriage, and his uneasy life among the expatriat
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