The Collection of Early Stories and Poems contains three stories and ten poems by Ernest Hemingway. The three stories are: "Up in Michigan" "Out of Season "My Old Man" The ten poems are: "Mitraigliatrice" "Oklahoma" "Oily Weather" "Roosevelt" "Captives" "Champs d'Honneur" "Riparto d'Assalto" "Montparnasse" "Along With Youth" "Chapter Heading"
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant («tenente») in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, after being wounded in the knee. The title is taken from a poem by...
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of 50 short tales by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Contents: The Old Man and the Sea The Torrents of Spring Up in...
Death in the Afternoon is a book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. It provides a look at the history and the Spanish traditions of bullfighting. It also contains a deeper contemplation on the nature of fear and courage. Hemingway became a bullfighting aficionado after seeing the Pamplona fiesta in the 1920s, which he wrote about in The Sun Also Rises. In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting—the ritualized, almost...
Jake Barnes is a man whose war wound has made him unable to have sex—and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. Jake is an expatriate American journalist living in Paris, while Brett is a twice-divorced Englishwoman with bobbed hair and numerous love affairs, and embodies the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in...
Robert Jordan is an American who lived in prewar Spain and fights as an irregular soldier for the Republic against Francisco Franco's fascist forces. An experienced dynamiter, he is ordered by a Soviet general to travel behind enemy lines and destroy a bridge with the aid of a band of local anti-fascist guerrillas to prevent enemy troops from responding to an upcoming offensive. On his mission, Jordan meets María, a young Spanish woman whose life has been shattered by her parents'...
Green Hills of Africa is a work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Much of the narrative describes Hemingway's adventures hunting in East Africa, interspersed with ruminations about literature and authors. Generally the East African landscape Hemingway describes is in the region of Lake Manyara...
Authors of the «Lost Generation,» as Gertrude Stein coined it, had seen the ravages of the two World Wars, coming at close heels, as both witnesses and participants. Amongst these authors, Hemingway has a special place in American literature. His works were dipped in his experiences and disillusionment with the Great War and ushered in a new sentiment on the literary scene. Indulge in the simple but powerful prose of Hemingway with these hand-picked selections and relive those momentous decades....
A Farewell to Arms – Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American medic, is serving in the Italian Army during the First World War. It is the start of winter when a Cholera epidemic kills thousands of soldiers. Frederic has a brief visit to Gorizia where he meets with other army fellows and the priest. His friend, Surgeon Rinaldi, takes him to a British hospital where Frederic is introduced to Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. However, over the course of the war Henry's duty as a soldier...
Ernest Hemingway is considered as one of the greatest American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Moreover, his prolific and influential writing brought him the much-coveted Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The present edition brings to you his world-famous works for...