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- Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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In the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates, Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley in a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker.
Pauline forged a strong bond with Hemingway, and in 1927, shortly after his divorce from Hadley, she became his second wife. Pauline also became her husband’s devoted editor, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, even converting a barn at the family home in Piggott, Arkansas into a dedicated writing studio, where much of his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms was written. The thirteen years the two were married were some of Hemingway’s most productive.
The marriage eventually ended in the way it began: with an affair. Hemingway left Pauline for Martha Gellhorn, the third of his four wives, in 1940. Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow is the story of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer marriage, a narrative of Pauline Pfeiffer’s fascinating life and her influence on one of America’s most enigmatic literary icons.
Pauline forged a strong bond with Hemingway, and in 1927, shortly after his divorce from Hadley, she became his second wife. Pauline also became her husband’s devoted editor, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, even converting a barn at the family home in Piggott, Arkansas into a dedicated writing studio, where much of his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms was written. The thirteen years the two were married were some of Hemingway’s most productive.
The marriage eventually ended in the way it began: with an affair. Hemingway left Pauline for Martha Gellhorn, the third of his four wives, in 1940. Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow is the story of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer marriage, a narrative of Pauline Pfeiffer’s fascinating life and her influence on one of America’s most enigmatic literary icons.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 2. The Pfeiffers
- pp. 7-17
- 3. Pauline
- pp. 18-28
- 5. Three’s a Crowd (1925–1926)
- pp. 41-55
- 6. The One Hundred Days (1926)
- pp. 56-67
- 7. Wedding Plans (1927)
- pp. 68-77
- 8. The Newlyweds (1927–1928)
- pp. 78-88
- 9. Homeward Bound (1928)
- pp. 89-99
- 10. Family Matters (1928–1929)
- pp. 100-109
- 11. Return to Paris (1929)
- pp. 110-119
- 12. A Place to Call Home (1930–1931)
- pp. 120-133
- 13. Chaos Abounds (1931–1932)
- pp. 134-148
- 14. In Good Times and Bad (1933)
- pp. 149-160
- 15. On Safari (1933–1934)
- pp. 161-173
- 16. More New Places (1935)
- pp. 174-183
- 17. More New Faces (1936)
- pp. 184-194
- 18. Trouble Ahead (1937)
- pp. 195-205
- 19. The Marriage Unravels (1938)
- pp. 206-214
- 20. The End of Something (1939)
- pp. 215-223
- 21. Acrimony and Alimony (1940–1941)
- pp. 224-235
- 22. War on the Home Front (1942–1945)
- pp. 236-247
- 23. New Beginnings (1946–1948)
- pp. 248-259
- 24. Last Rites (1949–1951)
- pp. 260-272
- 25. Afterward
- pp. 273-282
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 311-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610754934
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289742, 9781682261392
MARC Record
OCLC
836875727
Pages
333
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No