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Click to view full description | 1. | Ernest Hemingway DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON (HEMINGWAY CLASSICS)
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting; also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary. 400 pgs.
'Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and ''the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick.'' Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance and cunning.
A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary on life and literature.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. At seventeen he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. He was severely wounded at the Italian front and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, and where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapters 1 to 20, Inclusive
Illustrations
An Explanatory Glossary
Some Reactions of a Few Individuals to the Integral Spanish Bullfight
A Short Estimate of the American, Sidney Franklin, as a Matador
Dates on Which Bullfights Will Ordinarily Be Held in Spain, France, Mexico, and Central and South America
Bibliographical Note
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 | 2. | Ernest Hemingway GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA (HEMINGWAY CLASSICS)
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
Hemingway seeks to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. 208 pgs.
'''There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.''
-- ERNEST 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 West Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in -- and fascination with -- big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Yet Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.
Hemingway's rich description of the beauty and strangeness of the land and his passion for the sport of hunting combine to give Green Hills of Africa the freshness and immediacy of a deeply felt personal experience that is the hallmark of the greatest travel writing.
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 | 3. | Ernest Hemingway HEMINGWAY ON WAR
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
He witnessed the seminal conflicts of the 20th century, & he recorded them with matchless power. Now, a landmark volume brings together Ernest Hemingway's most important writings on war. Edited & Intro by Sean Hemingway. Foreword by Patrick Hemingway. 16 pgs of B&W photos; 6x9 inches, 352 pgs.
'Edited and with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway's grandson, Sean Hemingway, and featuring a personal foreword by the author's only living son, Patrick, Hemingway on War includes selections from Hemingway's first book of short stories, In Our Time, as well as from A Farewell to Arms, his towering novel of World War I. Excerpts from For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway's indelible portrait of life and love during the Spanish Civil War, and his only full-length play, The Fifth Column, brilliantly evoke the tumultuous war-torn Spain of the late 1930s.
Passages from Across the River and into the Trees vividly portray an emotionally scarred career soldier in the twilight of life as he reflects on the nature of war. Classic short stories such as ''In Another Country'' and ''The Butterfly and the Tank'' stand alongside captivating selections from Hemingway's war correspondence during his nearly 25 years as a reporter for The Toronto Star and other papers. Among these journalistic pieces are the author's penetrating coverage of the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, a legendary early interview with Mussolini, and Hemingway's jolting eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Hemingway onf War is a compelling collection of Ernest Hemingway's best writings about the devastating impact of human combat. Brought together for the first time, these works represent the author's penetrating and frank accounts of courage, fear, perserverance, depression and hope in the midst of war, and in its aftermath.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS:
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author of several classic works including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, Green Hills of Africa, The Garden of Eden, and In Our Time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Sean Hemingway and his wife, Colette, live in Brooklyn, New York.
Patrick Hemingway and his wife, Carol, live in Bozeman, Montana.
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 | 4. | Ernest Hemingway ISLANDS IN THE STREAM: A NOVEL
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
The story of an artist and adventurer - a man much like Hemingway himself. Begins in the 1930s & follows the fortunes of the intriguing Thomas Hudson, from his years as a painter on a Gulf Stream island through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. 6x9 inches, 448 pgs.
'The story of an artist and adventurer--a man much like Hemingway himself--Islands in the Stream begins in the 1930s and follows the fortunes of the intriguing Thomas Hudson, from his years as a painter on a Gulf Stream island through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II.
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 | 5. | Ernest Hemingway OLD MAN AND THE SEA
SIMON & SCHUSTER Paperback BOOK
Pulitzer prize-winning classic. Themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss. 5x8 inches, 128 pgs.
'The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
SYNOPSIS
Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has not caught a fish for eighty-four days, goes far out to sea in his skiff alone because the young boy Manolin, who has fished with him and served him in the past, is prevented from continuing to do so by his parents, who are convinced that the old man has salao, bad luck. Santiago kills a giant marlin after fighting it for three days, lashes it alongside his skiff, and sails for home only to have his fish attacked by sharks during the night and devoured despite the old man's valiant efforts to kill them or drive them away. The morning after Santiago's return Manolin finds the old man sleeping in his palm shack, cries, brings him coffee, and pledges to replace lost equipment and to fish with him again, for there is much that he can learn. When the boy leaves, the old man is dreaming of lions on a beach which he saw in Africa in his youth from a square-rigged ship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduation from high school, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked briefly for the Kansas City Star. Failing to qualify for the United States Army because of poor eyesight, he enlisted with the American Red Cross to drive ambulances in Italy. He was severely wounded on the Austrian front on July 9, 1918. Following recuperation in a Milan hospital, he returned home and became a freelance writer for the Toronto Star.
In December of 1921, he sailed to France and joined an expatriate community of writers and artists in Paris while continuing to write for the Toronto Star. There his fiction career began in ''little magazines'' and small presses and led to a volume of short stories, In Our Time (1925). His novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) established Hemingway as the most important and influential fiction writer of his generation. His later collections of short stories and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) affirmed his extraordinary career while his highly publicized life gave him unrivaled celebrity as a literary figure.
Hemingway became an authority on the subjects of his art: trout fishing, bullfighting, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing, and the cultures of the regions in which he set his work: France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, and Africa.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) earned him the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
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 | 6. | Ernest Hemingway OLD MAN AND THE SEA (HEMINGWAY CLASSICS)
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
Pulitzer prize-winning classic. Themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss. 5x8 inches, 128 pgs.
'The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
SYNOPSIS
Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has not caught a fish for eighty-four days, goes far out to sea in his skiff alone because the young boy Manolin, who has fished with him and served him in the past, is prevented from continuing to do so by his parents, who are convinced that the old man has salao, bad luck. Santiago kills a giant marlin after fighting it for three days, lashes it alongside his skiff, and sails for home only to have his fish attacked by sharks during the night and devoured despite the old man's valiant efforts to kill them or drive them away. The morning after Santiago's return Manolin finds the old man sleeping in his palm shack, cries, brings him coffee, and pledges to replace lost equipment and to fish with him again, for there is much that he can learn. When the boy leaves, the old man is dreaming of lions on a beach which he saw in Africa in his youth from a square-rigged ship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduation from high school, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked briefly for the Kansas City Star. Failing to qualify for the United States Army because of poor eyesight, he enlisted with the American Red Cross to drive ambulances in Italy. He was severely wounded on the Austrian front on July 9, 1918. Following recuperation in a Milan hospital, he returned home and became a freelance writer for the Toronto Star.
In December of 1921, he sailed to France and joined an expatriate community of writers and artists in Paris while continuing to write for the Toronto Star. There his fiction career began in ''little magazines'' and small presses and led to a volume of short stories, In Our Time (1925). His novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) established Hemingway as the most important and influential fiction writer of his generation. His later collections of short stories and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) affirmed his extraordinary career while his highly publicized life gave him unrivaled celebrity as a literary figure.
Hemingway became an authority on the subjects of his art: trout fishing, bullfighting, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing, and the cultures of the regions in which he set his work: France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, and Africa.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) earned him the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
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| 7. | Ernest Hemingway THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES (HEMINGWAY CLASSICS)
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
First pub in 1938, this group of short stories includes Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris. They showcase, nevertheless, the singular talent of the most important American writer of the twentieth century. 464 pgs.
'Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as ''Hills Like White Elephants, '' ''The Killers, '' ''The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber, '' and ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro.'' Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain, bald language of his first story, ''Up in Michigan, '' to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of ''A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'' to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduation from high school, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked briefly for the Kansas City Star. Failing to qualify for the United States Army because of poor eyesight, he enlisted with the American Red Cross to drive ambulances in Italy. He was severely wounded on the Austrian front on July 9, 1918. Following recuperation in a Milan hospital, he returned home and became a freelance writer for the Toronto Star.
In December of 1921, he sailed to France and joined an expatriate community of writers and artists in Paris while continuing to write for the Toronto Star. There his fiction career began in ''little magazines'' and small presses and led to a volume of short stories, In Our Time (1925). His novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) established Hemingway as the most important and influential fiction writer of his generation. His later collections of short stories and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) affirmed his extraordinary career while his highly publicized life gave him unrivaled celebrity as a literary figure.
Hemingway became an authority on the subjects of his art: trout fishing, bullfighting, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing, and the cultures of the regions in which he set his work: France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, and Africa.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) earned him the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
EXCERPT--Preface
The first four stories are the last ones I have written. The others follow in the order in which they were originally published.
The first one I wrote was Up in Michigan, written in Paris in 1921. The last was Old Man at the Bridge cabled from Barcelona in April of 1938.
Beside The Fifth Column, I wrote The Killers, Today Is Friday, Ten Indians, part of The Sun Also Rises and the first third of To Have and Have Not in Madrid. It was always a good place for working. So was Paris, and so were Key West, Florida, in the cool months; the ranch, near Cooke City, Montana; Kansas City; Chicago; Toronto, and Havana, Cuba.
Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope that you will find some that you like. Reading them over, the ones I liked the best, outside of those that have achieved some notoriety so that school teachers include them in story collections that their pupils have to buy in story courses, and you are always faintly embarrassed to read them and wonder whether you really wrote them or did you maybe hear them somewhere, are The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, In Another Country, Hills Like White Elephants, A Way You'll Never Be, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, and a story called The Light of the World which nobody else ever liked. There are some others too. Because if you did not like them you would not publish them.
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
Now it is necessary to get to the grindstone again. I would like to live long enough to write three more novels and twenty-five more stories. I know some pretty good ones.
Ernest Hemingway
1938
Copyright ' 1938 by Ernest Hemingway
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| 8. | Ernest Hemingway THE SHORT STORIES: VOLUME ONE
SIMON & SCHUSTER CD
Read by Stacey Keach. The first volume of unabridged stories from Papa Hemingway, the stylistic genius and master storywriter who occupies a permanent space in the literary canon. 5 CDs; Running time: 6 hours.
'At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, ''Up in Michigan.'' Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. The Short Stories, read by Stacey Keach, who has played Hemingway so convincingly, chronicles Hemingway's development as a writer, including Old Man at the Bridge, which derives from Hemingway's experiences in Spain, as well as ''The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'' and ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro.''
A definitive collection traces the development and maturation of of Ernest Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary style that made him one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. The author of such classic novels as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea,, Hemingway first became famous for his short stories. Listeners will be able to appreciate the spare, eloquent pathos and sense of expansive solitude--the seamless prose only Hemingway could produce. It includes familiar tales, including ''Up in Michigan, '''' and ''''The Capital of the World.''
VOLUME ONE INLUDES:
Up in Michigan
The Capital of the World
Old Man at the Bridge
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
On the Quai at Smyrna
Indian Camp
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
The End of Something
The Three-Day Blow
The Battler
A Very Short Story
Soldier's Home
The Revolutionist
Mr. & Mrs. Elliott
Cat in the Rain
Out of Season
Cross-Country Snow
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| 9. | Ernest Hemingway THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO & OTHER STORIES (HEMINGWAY CLASSICS)
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
Contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Together, ''The Killers, '' the autobiographical ''Fathers and Sons, '' ''The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, '' and the title story represent one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.
'The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes ''The Killers, '' the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical ''Fathers and Sons, '' which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; ''The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, '' a ''brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention, '' wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: ''I put all the true stuff in, '' with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A Day's Wait
The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
Fathers and Sons
In Another Country
The Killers
A Way You'll Never Be
Fifty Grand
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. At seventeen he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. He was severely wounded at the Italian front and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, and where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
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| 10. | Ernest Hemingway THE SUN ALSO RISES (HEMINGWAY CLASSICS)
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
Perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency. 224 pgs.
'Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ' clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called ''Lost'' the spirit of its age, and marked Ernest Hemingway as the preeminent writer of his time
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduation from high school, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked briefly for the Kansas City Star. Failing to qualify for the United States Army because of poor eyesight, he enlisted with the American Red Cross to drive ambulances in Italy. He was severely wounded on the Austrian front on July 9, 1918. Following recuperation in a Milan hospital, he returned home and became a freelance writer for the Toronto Star.
In December of 1921, he sailed to France and joined an expatriate community of writers and artists in Paris while continuing to write for the Toronto Star. There his fiction career began in ''little magazines'' and small presses and led to a volume of short stories, In Our Time (1925). His novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) established Hemingway as the most important and influential fiction writer of his generation. His later collections of short stories and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) affirmed his extraordinary career while his highly publicized life gave him unrivaled celebrity as a literary figure.
Hemingway became an authority on the subjects of his art: trout fishing, bullfighting, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing, and the cultures of the regions in which he set his work -- France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, and Africa.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) earned him the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
SYNOPSIS
Jake Barnes, an American newspaperman emasculated by a wound suffered in Italy during World War I, is living and working in Paris in the expatriate community. He takes friends Bill Gorton, Lady Brett Ashley (whom Jake loves), her fianc', Mike Campbell, and Robert Cohn (also in love with Brett) to Spain for trout fishing and bullfighting during the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona. Tensions mount among Campbell, Cohn, and Barnes over Brett and intensify as she falls in love with Pedro Romero, a nineteen-year-old bullfighter. At the end of the festival, Brett leaves with Romero, Bill returns to Paris, Mike goes to St. Jean de Luz, and Jake goes to San Sebastian for a respite soon ended when he receives a telegram from Brett. Jake goes immediately to her aid in Madrid, where he finds her momentarily remorseful and evading truth about Romero and her relationship with Jake.
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 | 11. | Ernest Hemingway TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT: A FICTIONAL MEMOIR
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
A blend of autobiography and fiction. Depicting human longings spiced with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the African scenery. 240 pgs.
'Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery -- the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry.
As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the ''incalculable casualties of marriage, '' and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent.
In True at First Light, Hemingway also chronicles his exploits -- sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant -- among the African men with whom he has become very close, reminisces about encounters with other writers and his days in Paris and Spain and satirizes, among other things, the role of organized religion in Africa. He also muses on the act of writing itself and the author's role in determining the truth. What is fact and what is fiction' This is a question that was posed by Hemingway's readers throughout his career and is one of his principal subjects here.
Equally adept at evoking the singular textures of the landscape, the thrill of the hunt and the complexities of married life, Hemingway weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and profound insight. True at First Light is an extraordinary publishing event -- a breathtaking final work from one of this nation's most beloved and important writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of our greatest literary lights. As a journalist, he covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.
REVIEWS
''Twentieth-century American literature could not end on a brighter note than the publication of this book.'' --Library Journal
''A major literary event. In addition to the book's intrinsic pleasures, it provides a new window into the tantalizing, unsettling, oceanic world of his experimental, unfinished late work.'' --David Gates, Newsweek
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 | 12. | Ernest Hemingway TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT: A FICTIONAL MEMOIR
SIMON & SCHUSTER Paperback BOOK
A blend of autobiography and fiction. Depicting human longings spiced with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the African scenery. 240 pgs.
'Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery -- the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry.
As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the ''incalculable casualties of marriage, '' and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent.
In True at First Light, Hemingway also chronicles his exploits -- sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant -- among the African men with whom he has become very close, reminisces about encounters with other writers and his days in Paris and Spain and satirizes, among other things, the role of organized religion in Africa. He also muses on the act of writing itself and the author's role in determining the truth. What is fact and what is fiction' This is a question that was posed by Hemingway's readers throughout his career and is one of his principal subjects here.
Equally adept at evoking the singular textures of the landscape, the thrill of the hunt and the complexities of married life, Hemingway weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and profound insight. True at First Light is an extraordinary publishing event -- a breathtaking final work from one of this nation's most beloved and important writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of our greatest literary lights. As a journalist, he covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.
REVIEWS
''Twentieth-century American literature could not end on a brighter note than the publication of this book.'' --Library Journal
''A major literary event. In addition to the book's intrinsic pleasures, it provides a new window into the tantalizing, unsettling, oceanic world of his experimental, unfinished late work.'' --David Gates, Newsweek
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| 13. | Ernest Hemingway UNDER KILIMANJARO
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Hardcover BOOK
Edited by Robert W. Lewis & Robert E. Fleming. An American literary treasure. Reveals a mature, tender, happy, & reflective Hemingway & offers a compelling, deliberately paced, subtle story of a place & time as only Ernest Hemingway could write it. 472 pgs.
''The sun was not up but that was because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the light was gray but good and Ngui and I were walking through the grass that was wet from the dew. He walked ahead because he knew where the bait had been hung and I watched the trees and his back and the trail his black legs made through the wetness of the grass. We walked silently and the cold wet of the new knee-high grass against my legs was cold and pleasant. Ngui carried the old Winchester pump gun and I carried the Springfield and the only noise that I heard from myself was the light slopping of the tea in my stomach.'
' Under Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway
Accompanied by his fourth wife Mary, famed American novelist Ernest Hemingway spent several months in late 1953 and early 1954 on his final safari in Kenya. Their time there came to an abrupt end in early January 1954 when they sustained serious injuries from two near-fatal plane crashes in east Africa. While recovering, and back home in Havana, Hemingway wrote his 'African book,' which is, by turns, an adventuresome, comedic, and thoughtful recounting of his final safari. In Under Kilimanjaro 'Papa' colors real people and events with his lively imagination as he demonstrates his inimitable style, his deft wit, and his intelligent curiosity in this autobiographical novel about the land and people he came to love.
Completed in 1956, Under Kilimanjaro is part handwritten and part typed, with many of the pages heavily edited in Hemingway's hand. He then left this manuscript, along with those for A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, and The Garden of Eden, in a safe-deposit box in Cuba, often referring to them as his 'life insurance' for his heirs.
Under Kilimanjaro is the last of Hemingway's manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming believe that 'this book deserves as complete and faithful a publication as possible without editorial distortion, speculation, or textually unsupported attempts at improvement. Our intent has been to produce a complete reading text of Ernest Hemingway's manuscript. . . .Working on it was both a privilege and a responsibility. . . .Readers of this remarkable work will experience the mingled pleasure of revisiting the familiar and discovering the new.'
To its readers, Under Kilimanjaro reveals a mature, tender, happy, and reflective Hemingway and offers a compelling, deliberately paced, subtle story of a place and time as only Ernest Hemingway could write it.
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 | 14. | Ernest Hemingway, edited by Sean Hemingway HEMINGWAY ON HUNTING
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS Paperback BOOK
Foreword by Patrick Hemingway. Bringing his classic writings on hunting together for the first time, this is ''Hemingway at his purest. The prose is artfully spare, gracefully descriptive and faithful to his professional commitment'' (The Washington Post). Companion volume to the best-selling ''Hemingway on Fishing''. 6x8 inches, 320 pgs.
'The companion volume to the best-selling Hemingway on Fishing. Hemingway found in hunting courage & skill, qualities that he would admire & incorporate into so many other aspects of his life & work. He was able to isolate the sporting passion of hunting into writings that are now classic.
For Ernest Hemingway, hunting was more than an adventurous, thrilling activity--it was a world of the pursuer and the pursued in which he explored the virtues of courage, skill, respect, and perseverance, qualities that he admired and invcorporated into so many aspects of his life and work. Hemingway on Hunting brings together this seminal author's writings on hunting, many of which are reflections of his own adventures in the plains of the Serengeti, the wetlands of the Veneto, and the wilds of the American West.
In 2000, Hemingway on Fishing became one of the most successful books in Lyons Press history. Edited by Ernest Hemingway's grandson Sean, and with an introduction from his son Patrick, Hemingway on Hunting chronicles Hemingway's zeal for the hunting life, from Africa to the American West.
Hemingway found in hunting courage and skill, qualities that he would admire and incorporate into so many other aspects of his life and work. He was able to isolate the sporting passion of hunting into writings that are now classic. Extensive selections from Green Hills of Africa, his famous account of an African safari, 'The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber,' 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro,' and other important short stories, along with selections from his journalism, make this a definitive summary of a master sportsman, hunter, and writer. Passages from Across the River and into the Trees, which vividly describe duck hunting in the Venetian lagoon, and numerous selections from the author's articles for Esquire, Vogue, and other magazines make this collection of writings a definitvie summary of a master sportsman and writer.
Introduction written by Patrick Hemingway.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR:
Ernest Hemingway (1899'1961) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He is one of the towering authors of the twentieth century.
Sean Hemingway is Ernest Hemingway's grandson, and Patrick Hemingway is Ernest's surviving son. Sean Hemingway lives in New York City while Patrick makes his home in Bozeman, Montana.
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 | 15. | Ernest Hemingway, edited Carlos Baker ERNEST HEMINGWAY SELECTED LETTERS: 1917-1961
SIMON & SCHUSTER Hardcover BOOK
Featuring nearly 600 letters written by Ernest Hemingway over 45 years, this collection provides an intimate portrait of one of the most originial and influential American writers of all time. 6x9 inches, 976 pgs.
'Throughout his correspondance, Hemingway candidly reveals himself to a wide variety of people, from friends and family to enemies and editors, as well as an impressive list of the prominent writers of his day, including Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, and many others.
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 | 16. | Ernest Hemingway, Introduction by Nick Lyons HEMINGWAY ON FISHING
SIMON & SCHUSTER Paperback BOOK
Collected for the first time in one volume, are all of Hemingway's great writings about the kinds of fishing he did - from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream. Full, diverse, & fascinating. B&W photos; 8x10 inches, 272 pgs.
'The first book to collect the Nobel Prize winning author's writing about one of his greatest passions.
EXCERPT
What did I know best that I had not written about and lost' What did I know about truly and care for the most' There was no choice at all. 'Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, on starting to write about fishing
Throughout his life, Ernest Hemingway was an avid fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportage were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he did'from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream.
In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a caf' in Paris and writing about what he knew best'and when it came time to stop he 'did not want to leave the river'; the story was the unforgettable classic, Big Two-Hearted River, and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He also wrote articles for the Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles for Esquire about his growing passion for big-game fishing. His last books, The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream, celebrate his vast knowledge of the ocean and his affection for its great denizens.
Hemingway on Fishing is a full, diverse, and fascinating collection of the great novelist's writing about fishing. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer's passion; the range of his interests; and the sure uses he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature.
So, it's no surprise that much of his work was devoted to his favorite sport, from his early reportage in The Toronto Star to one of his last novels, The Old Man and the Sea.
Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will welcome this important collection. Edited and with an introduction by Nick Lyons.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:
''This marvelous volume offers Hemingway's best writing involving fishing gleaned from his fiction and nonfiction...Hemingway on Fishing is a trophy-sized catch to enjoy in and out of season, so grab yourself a cold one, get comfortable, and go fishing with Papa!'' --Library Journal
''He wrote beautifully about fishing...It is wonderful to see the good stuff again and to be reminded of just how good it was.'' --American Way
''Nick Lyons...deserves considerable credit for bringing together in one volume Hemingway's best writing on fishing. It is what Hemingway loved most.'' --Chicago Tribune
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He is one of the towering authors of the twentieth century.
Nick Lyons, formerly Professor of American Literature at Hunter College, has written extensively about fishing. He lives in New York City.
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