The real-life socialite Lady Duff Twysden was given a better name, Brett Ashley. There are signs of other felicitous decisions. The evidence for these alternatives comes from early notes and manuscripts, which are included in a new edition of the novel, published this month. Early title contenders were “Fiesta: A Novel” (as the book was subsequently known in England), “Two Lie Together,” and even “For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow”-a line that, like the winning candidate, comes from Ecclesiastes, and that, it is safe to assume, Hemingway might have abridged further if he’d used it. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” was almost called something else.
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