The original A Moveable Feast, among Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved works, was originally published posthumously  in 1964. The Memoir is of the author’s life in Paris as a struggling writer, newlywed and young father between 1920 and 1926.

 A Moveable Feast The Restored Edition with a forward by Hemingway’s only living son Patrick Hemingway and edited by his grandson Sean Hemingway presents the original A Moveable Feast manuscript exactly as Hemingway intended. A major difference is the exclusion from The Restored Edition of the influence that Hemingway’s fourth wife Mary had upon the original publication in 1964.

Of great significance from this reading is Hemingway’s agony over his leaving Hadley for Pauline.

” Any blame in that was mine to take and posses and understand. The only one, Hadley, who had no possible blame, ever, came well out of it finally and married a much finer man than I ever was or could hope to be and is happy and deserves it and that was one good and lasting thing that came from that year.”

Whether or not you have read the original I commend to you A Moveable Feast The Restored Edition. It it wonderful to be in Paris with Ernest and Hadley, to be young, carefree, tasting the food, wine and life itself.

” Lets walk down the rue d Seine and look in all the galleries and in the windows of the shops. We can stop at a new cafe where we don’t know anyone and nobody knows us and have a drink. We can have two drinks. We’ll come home and eat here and have a lovely meal and drink and afterwards we’ll read and go to bed and make love.”

Writing, wonderful writing, every word framing a picture, painting or memory. There is never enough Hemingway. The Restored Edition is worth the time. Do it again, or for the first time!