A Moveable Feast

Sep 20, 2026

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A Moveable Feast presents Ernest Hemingway’s recollections of Paris between 1921 and 1926, framed as literary scenes and personal observations. The preface explains what has been omitted and invites readers to view the work as fiction if desired, while still treating it as factual insight. The opening chapter depicts life around Place St.-Michel, contrasting bad weather, crowded cafés, drinkers, and the gritty social atmosphere that shaped the author’s youthful experience in the city.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages96

Reading Time2 h 28 min

AccessFree to download

Preface

Note

A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel

Miss Stein Instructs

“Une Génération Perdue”

Shakespeare and Company

People of the Seine

A False Spring

The End of an Avocation

Hunger Was Good Discipline

Ford Madox Ford and the Devils’ Disciple

Birth of a New School

With Pascin at the Dôme

Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit

A Strange Enough Ending

The Man Who Was Marked for Death

Evan Shipman at the Lilas

An Agent of Evil

Scott Fitzgerald

Hawks Do Not Share

A Matter of Measurements

There Is Never Any End to Paris

* A Distributed Proofreaders Canada eBook * This ebook is made available at no cost and with very few restrictions . These restrictions apply only if (1) you make a change in the ebook (other than alteration for different display devices), or (2) you are making commercial use of the ebook. If either of these conditions applies , please contact a FP administrator before proceeding. This work is in the Canadian public domain, but may be under copyright in some countries . If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws . IF THE BOOK IS UNDER COPYRIGHT IN YOUR COUNTRY, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR REDISTRIBUTE THIS FILE. Title: A Moveable Feast Date offirst publication: 1964 Author: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Date first posted: Nov. 12, 2014 Date last updated: Nov. 12, 2014 Faded Page eBook \#20141111 This ebook was produced by: Marcia Brooks , Al Haines , Paulina Chin & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at [http://www.pgdpcanada.net](http://www.pgdpcanada.net) ERNEST HEMINGWAY AMoveable Feast If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest ofyour life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ERNEST HEMINGWAY to a friend, 1950 CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, New York Copyright © 1964 Ernest Hemingway Ltd. This book published simultaneously in the United States ofAmerica and in Canada— Copyright under the Berne Convention All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced in anyform without the permission ofCharles Scribner s’ Sons. PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Family Collection 2. Family Collection 3. Collection ofMan Ray 4. Copyright Estate of Sylvia Beach. From the Collection of Sylvia Beach, Paris 5. Photograph by Gisèle Freund, Paris 6. From the Sylvia Beach Collection, State University ofNew York at Buffalo 7. Collection ofMan Ray 8. Courtesy ofMrs . Samuel J. Lanahan 9. Family Collection W PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number 64-15441 Contents Preface ix Note xi A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel 1 Miss Stein Instructs 9 “Une Génération Perdue ” 23 Shakespeare and Company 33 People ofthe Seine 39 AFalse Spring 47 The End ofan Avocation 59 Hunger Was Good Discipline 67 Ford Madox Ford and the Devils’ Disciple 79 Birth of a New School 89 With Pascin at the Dôme 97 Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit 105 A Strange Enough Ending 115 The Man Who Was Marked for Death 121 Evan Shipman at the Lilas 131 An Agent ofEvil 141 Scott Fitzgerald 147 Hawks Do Not Share 177 A Matter ofMeasurements 187 There Is Never Any End to Paris 195 Preface For reasons sufficient to the writer, many places , people, observations and impressions have been left out ofthis book. Some were secrets and some were known by everyone and everyone has written about them and will doubtless write more. There is no mention ofthe Stade Anastasie where the boxers served as waiters at the tables set out under the trees and the ring was in the garden . Nor oftraining with Larry Gains , nor the great twenty-round fights at the Cirque d ’Hiver. Nor of such good friends as Charlie Sweeney, Bill Bird and Mike Strater, nor ofAndré Masson and Miro . There is no mention of our voyages to the Black Forest or of our one-day explorations ofthe forests that we loved around Paris . It would be fine if all these were in this book but we will have to do without them for now. If the reader prefers , this book may be regarded as fiction . But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact. Ernest Hemingway San Francisco de Paula, Cuba 1960 Note Ernest started writing this book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957, worked on it in Ketchum, Idaho, in the winter of 1958-59, took it with him to Spain when we went there in April, 1959, and brought it back with him to Cuba and then to Ketchum late th

FAQs

What is the purpose of the Preface in A Moveable Feast?

The Preface explains that many places, people, and observations were left out, some were secrets, and others were well known. It also notes that readers may regard the book as fiction while still allowing it to shed light as fact.

When did Hemingway work on A Moveable Feast according to the Note?

Hemingway started writing in Cuba in autumn 1957, worked in Idaho in winter 1958-59, took it to Spain in April 1959, and finished it in Cuba in spring 1960, with revisions made in Ketchum in fall 1960.

What setting does the opening chapter describe?

The chapter “A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel” describes bad weather in the Place Contrescarpe area, focusing on a crowded, gloomy café (Café des Amateurs) and the drinking culture around it.

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