First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, "Islands in the Stream" is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories "(In Our Time)" to his [...]
An eightieth anniversary edition of the Nobel Prize-winning classic author's first novel follows the dual story of a wounded war correspondent's hopeless pursuit of an unattainable lady and a band of expatriates' 1920s journey from Paris's Left Bank to the bull fights of Spain. Reprint. 125,000 firs[...]
Story of an old fisherman's struggle against natural obstacles that hinder the catch of a huge marlin.[...]
Hemingway's classic novel of the First World War The best American novel to emerge from World War I, " A Farewell to Arms" is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between L[...]
Hemingway's classic novel of the Spanish Civil War
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war; three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International B[...]
THE QUINTESSENTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE LOST GENERATION
"The Sun Also Rises" is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the story introduces two of Hemingway's [...]
The rugged beauty of Africa as experienced through the eyes of Hemingway
His second major venture into nonfiction (after "Death in the Afternoon," 1932), "Green Hills of Africa" is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his[...]
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, "The Garden of Eden" is the uncompleted final novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorou[...]
Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if only because it is so revealing. Through verse he expressed anger and disgust--at Dorothy Parker and [...]
Story of an old fisherman's struggle against natural obstacles that hinder the catch of a huge marlin[...]
It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo [...]
Arthur Waldhorn discusses Hemingway's sense of the world as well as his writing style. He also analyses, in chronological order, the writings - beginning with the early stories and sketches - tracing major patterns that recur throughout Hemingway's career. His approach to each book is a critical exa[...]
The story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal - a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant malin far out in the Gulf Stream.[...]
The unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.[...]
Hemingway's first big novel, a poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris.[...]