Foreword by Patrick Hemingway: A new generation of Hemingway readers (one hopes there will never be a lost generation!) has the opportunity here to read a pblished text that is a less edited and more comprehensive version of the original manuscript material the author intended as a memoir of his young, formative years as a writer in Paris; one of his best moveable feasts. . . .

Introduction by Sean Hemingway: In November 1956, the management of the Ritz Hotel in Paris convinced Ernest Hemingway to repossess two small steamer trunks that he had stored there in March 1928. . . .

First words in text: Then there was the bad weather. . . .