Chapter 1 — Robert Cohn

"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton." So begins Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

In this opening chapter, narrator Jake Barnes introduces us to Robert Cohn — the proud, insecure ex-boxer and would-be writer whose restlessness will ripple through everything to come — sketching his Princeton years, his marriage, and his uneasy life among the expatriates of 1920s Paris.

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