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The Torrents of Spring is an Ernest Hemingway novel published in 1925. Image File history File linksMetadata Spring_torrents. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Spring_torrents. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Hemingway, who had completed but not published The Sun Also Rises, wrote this second novel in a way that would force his publisher, Horace Liverwright, to refuse it and thus break Hemingway's contract. The book parodies Liverwright's star author, Sherwood Anderson, and Hemingway knew Liverwright would never accept it. Hemingway was then able to take up a more lucrative offer from Scribner's. The Sun Also Rises is the first significant novel by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926, following a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. ... Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. ...

The novel relates the tale of the intersecting lives of World War I veteran Yogi Johnson and writer Scripps O'Neill, both of whom work at a pump factory. Both are searching for the perfect woman. O'Neill takes mescaline and hallucinates that he is President of Mexico. Johnson is cured of his impotence when, viewing a naked squaw, he is overcome by "a new feeling" which he immediately attribute to Mother Nature, and together he and the squaw "light out for the territories." Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total dead: 7 million Spanish Flu... Squaw (from Pidgin Massachusett (a Pidginized version of a language belonging to the Algonquian family) squa, meaning young woman) is an English loan-word whose present meaning is (an) American Indian woman, regardless of tribe, and often with a derisive connotation. ...

It may be noted that the hero of this novel suffers from impotence, while the hero of The Sun Also Rises suffered from a missing penis. Many of Hemingway's short stories from this period (such as God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) also treat themes of sexual dysfunction. Impotence or, more clinically, erectile dysfunction is the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis for satisfactory sexual intercourse regardless of the capability of ejaculation. ...

Though primarily a send-up of Anderson's poorly-esteemed negro novel Dark Laughter, the literary proclivities of American and British close to Anderson, such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos, are wound into the monkey-barrel of satire and parody. Dark Laughter was Sherwood Andersons 1925 novel which took up much the same theme as his 1923 novel Many Marriages, though he read James Joyces Ulysses in between. ... David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose output spans novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name Séamas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... John Rodrigo Dos Passos, born January 14, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois, United States - died September 28, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland, was a novelist and artist. ...