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Hemingway forges new literary ground with this amazing collection of his earliest stories. Published in America in 1925, the book includes classics like "Soldier's Home," "My Old Man," "Out of Season," "Indian Camp" and one of Hemingway's finest stories, "Big Two Hearted River." One of the important books in 20th century literature. A blurb by Ford Maddox Ford on the book's original cover stated boldy that: "The best writer in America at this moment (though for the moment he happens to be in Paris), the most conscientious, the most master of his craft, the most consummate, is Ernest Hemingway."
Published in 1926, it was the first book of Hemingway's to be handled by Scribner's after Boni and Liveright, the firm that published In Our Time, turned it down. This satire poked fun at Sherwood Anderson who at the time was Boni and Liveright's star writer. Not wanting to jeapordize their relationship with Anderson they felt they couldn't publish a book by a young Hemingway which essentially attacked Anderson's writing style, particularly that of his novel Dark Laughter. With Boni and Liveright turning the book down, Hemingway was free to move to Scribner's, a more prestigious publisher and the publisher of his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway wrote this short book in just a week to cool down, as he said, after writing The Sun Also Rises. Fitzgerald wrote about Torrents in a letter to Horace Liveright: "It seems about the best comic book ever written by an American."
Hemingway's first major novel, it established him as a literary force, and proved he could maintain the intensity and control of his stories in the longer form of the novel. A story of frustrated love against the backdrop of Paris and Spain in the 1920's, Hemingway captures the sites and sounds and smells of his settings better than any other writer. The bohemian Paris during the great expatriate days and the manic weeklong feria at Pamplona with the running of the bulls are captured brilliantly. Like his first short story collection, this novel is one of the finest of the 20th century.
Published in 1927 this volume of short stories contains some of Hemingway's finest writing. It includes "The Killers," "In Another Country," "Fifty Grand," "The Undefeated," "Hills Like White Elephants" and more. Hemingway established himself as the best story writer of his generation with this book, wrestling with themes and subject matter that he would visit again throughout his career. Stories of boxing, bullfighting, war and relationships show Hemingway's range as a writer.
A tragic story of love, betrayal and reconciliation against the violent backdrop of World War I. With this book Hemingway produces the best novel to emerge from the first World War and establishes himself as the finest writer of his generation. Here's what Amazon.com had to say: Novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1929. Like his early short stories and his novel The Sun Also Rises, the work is full of the disillusionment of the "lost generation" expatriates. While serving with the Italian ambulance service during World War I, the American lieutenant Frederick Henry falls in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him after he is wounded. She becomes pregnant but refuses to marry him, and he returns to his post. Henry deserts during the Italians' retreat after the Battle of Caporetto, and the reunited couple flee into Switzerland. There, however, Catherine and her baby die during childbirth, leaving Henry desolate.
Published in 1932, this examination of the Spanish bullfight ushered in what many thought was a creatively fallow decade for Hemingway, but in reality was a decade of experimental writing that often went over the heads of casual critics. A lifelong enthusiast of the bullfight and of Spain, Hemingway thought that next to war the bullring was one of the only places to view death firsthand, an experience invaluable to a writer. Hemingway had come up with the idea for a bullfighting book as early as 1925, telling his editor Max Perkins: "I hope some day to have a Doughty's Arabia Deserta of the Bull Ring, a very big book with some wonderful pictures." In a favorable review by Malcolm Cowley he says the book deals with "the art of living, of drinking, of dying, of loving the Spanish land," and called the book an "elegy to Spain and vanished youth." This book discusses much more than bullfighting; Hemingway also digresses into his often devastating and humerous takes on writers and writing. Much more enjoyable than the title might indicate.
Appearing in October of 1933, this volume of short stories contains some of Hemingway's best, including his classic story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" about which James Joyce remarked: "He (Hemingway) has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..." This book also contains "A Way You'll Never Be" and "Fathers and Sons." The book received some pretty poor reviews when it first came out, but time has been kind to it, showing that genius often works far ahead of current understanding. Hemingway himself knew that most people would not like it but defended his writing in a letter to his then mother-in-law, saying: "I don't expect anybody to like the present book of stories and don't think you have to make an effort to--or even be polite about them. I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin. These stories are mostly about things and people that people won't care about--or will actively dislike. All right. Sooner of later as the wheel keeps turning I will have ones that they will like."
In the winter of 1933 Hemingway and his second wife Pauline travelled to Africa for big-game hunting. The events of that safari were detailed in this second of Hemingway's non-fiction books. In the forward of the book Hemingway writes: "The writer has attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." Unfortunately the critics didn't think it competed very well at all, finding Hemingway's practice of attacking writers and critics sloppy and egotistic. Nevertheless, there is the wonderful writing about Africa's beauty and when Hemingway does discourse on writing and writers he does so insightfully, stating: "Our writers when they have made some money increase their standard of living and they are caught. They have to write to keep up their establishments, their wives, and so on, and they write slop...Or else they read the critics...At present we have two good writers who cannot write because they have lost confidence through reading critics." He was speaking of F. Scott Fitzgerald who was having trouble finishing Tender is the Night, and Sherwood Anderson who was never the same after Winesburg, Ohio.
Hemingway's famous novel about a man who runs contraband between Cuba and Key West in the 1930s is at once a realistic adventure tale and a moving, subtle portrait of an unlikely love affair. "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions as the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous."--Times Literary Supplement.
Hemingway's direct and deceptively simple style shapes these stories into true masterpieces. From "Up in Michigan," written in 1921, to "Old Man at the Bridge," penned in Barcelona in 1938, these narratives trace, through setting and theme, the author's life, his evolving literary style, and the development of the "Hemingway hero"--be he soldier, boxer, expatriate, or bullfighter.
Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, which--like the stories here--grew out of his experiences in and around a besieged Madrid, this volume brilliantly evokes the tumultuous years of the Spanish Civil War.
Some critics think this novel about the impending death of an American in the Spanish War is Ernest Hemingway's finest work. Told in Hemingway's uncluttered style, its simple phrases speak volumes: "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." Those are the words of Robert Jordan as he lies upon a hillside with the enemy closing in. Jordan has drawn the assignment of blowing up a bridge, but as he flees, a shell explodes, toppling his horse and breaking the soldier's legs. Thus, Jordan not only faces the loss of his life but the loss of his love for Maria, a woman he met and fell for during his mountain tour of duty. Death, war, love, and passion, told in a way only Hemingway can.
A poignant story set in Venice during World War II follows Colonel Richard Cantwell, a fiercely proud man whose body has been ravaged by war, who has fallen in love with a young Italian countess as he struggles to decide what his future will be.
Short novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Completed after a 10-year literary drought, it was his last major work of fiction. The novel is written in Hemingway's characteristically spare prose. It concerns an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago who finally catches a magnificent fish after weeks of not catching anything. After three days of playing the fish, he finally manages to reel it in and lash it to his boat, only to have sharks eat it as he returns to the harbor. The other fishermen marvel at the size of the skeleton; Santiago is spent but triumphant.
This vibrant portrait of Paris in the 1920s, published posthumously in 1964, is vintage Hemingway--evocative, self-mocking and frank. In an extraordinary chronicle of the sights, sounds, and tastes of Paris in a bygone era, Hemingway offers readers a view of his life and the people that populated his expatriate world--Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and other literary luminaries.
These ten stories are classic Hemingway. Written in the tough, terse prose style that made him one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and reflecting his obsession with such masculine pursuits as boxing, big-game hunting, and war, they offer powerful portraits of how men confront the fear of death--and the emptiness of their lives.
In this classic novel, Hemingway created the fascinating character Thomas Hudson, tracing his life from his years as a painter in Bimini in the 1930s through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II.
Scribners collects all of Hemingway's short stories involving Nick Adams, including greats like "Big Two-Hearted River" and "Indian Camp." Put together these stories have the effect of a novel, where we can watch the development of and changes in one of the great protagonists in literature, Nick Adams.
The Finca Vigia edition of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway collects for the first time the complete work of the acknowledged master of the genre. This landmark collection includes the entire contents of The First Forty-Nine, the first omnibus volume of Hemingway's works published in 1939, as well as 14 stories published subsequently in other books or magazines and seven works published for the first time in the hardcover edition.
Hemingway's last major literary work, this dramatic and moving chronicle of a season of bullfights in Spain, and of the author's friendship with one of the most daring men ever to enter the ring, shines with "moments . . . of purest Hemingway--when what is said suggests a whole universe that is unsaid" (Robert Wilson, "USA Today").
Set on the Cote d'Azur, during the 1920s, this acclaimed, bestselling novel, first published in 1986, tells the story of a young American writer, his glamorous wife, and the dangerous, erotic games they play when they both fall in love with the same woman. Suppressed during Hemingway's lifetime, it represents a startling departure in theme and mood from the author's best-known works.
From Kirkus Reviews , March 19, 1999 Complete Poems: Ernest Hemingway, paperback, $8.05...you save $0.90! As the title suggests, this is a compilation of Hemingway's poetry. Comprised of some 88 poems, this book shows Hemingway at his witty, and often profane, best (worse?). It is as if Hemingway used poetry to warm up for his prose work, or to blow off steam after a hard day of writing. Most of these pieces aren't that impressive, but some do exhibit Hemingway's keen descriptive powers. There is some insightful commentary by the editor Nicholas Gerogiannis which helps explain some of the more arcane references in Hemingway's poems, but this volume should only be purchased by or for the true Hemingway fanatic!
This is a beautiful hardcover edition of Hemingway's short stories. A wonderful collection of short stories by the finest story writer of the 20th century. Hemingway's Journalism
This wonderful resource covers Hemingway's journalism from his early days writing for the Toronto Star Weekly in 1920 to the articles he was writing in the late 1950's for magazines such as Look, True and Colliers. Though Hemingway always said his journalism had nothing to do with his real writing and that he often wrote for newspapers to pay for his expensive hobbies, his brilliance shines in each article and often the germs of his fiction stories can be found in his newspaper and magazine work. Provides a great sampling of Hemingway's "other" career as a journalist and should find a spot on every Hemingway fan's book shelf.
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