Ernest Hemingway Libri

Raccolti in volume dall'autore nel 1938, I quarantanove racconti sono stati consacrati dalla critica tra i capolavori piú significativi della narrativa americana. Con la sua straordinaria capacità di reinventare l'esperienza, Hemingway ci restituisce un'umanità varia e vibrante - uomini, donne e adolescenti chiamati tutti a misurarsi in modo diverso con l'asprezza dell'esistenza -; ora raccontandoci di matadores e corride, di safari dall'esito tragico, di pugili indomabili e di donne fragili e remissive; ora narrando le avventure del suo alter-ego Nick Adams, la passione per la pesca alle trote, le prime delusioni amorose; ora infine tornando con lucidità alla devastante esperienza della guerra combattuta sul campo o nelle retrovie. Nutrono questi racconti tutti i motivi piú cari alla saga hemingwayana, narrati con tale intensità che "quando tu hai finito di leggerne uno ti sembrerà che tutto quanto sia accaduto a te e, dopo, tutto quanto ti appartiene: il bene e il male, l'estasi, il rimorso, il dolore, la gente, i posti e il tempo che faceva".

Contains some of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring, from rural America to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of these spare and powerful stories is a feat of imagination and a masterpiece of description,

Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"

Robert Jordan è un giovane intellettuale americano volontario nell'esercito antifranchista. Il suo incarico consiste nel far saltare un ponte d'acciaio librato in territorio nemico. Per questa missione entra in contatto con la 'banda di Pablo', un gruppo di partigiani di cui fanno parte due donne: Pilar, moglie di Pablo, e Maria, una ragazza che incarna tutte le virtù morali e naturali che un uomo come Robert può desiderare. L'azione dura solo tre giorni, ma l'evento si dilata con fatti paralleli: la storia d'amore fra Robert e Maria, le conversazioni, i monologhi interiori, i richiami al passato. Pur attanagliato da mille dubbi, Robert darà l'ordine di far saltare il ponte anche se il suo sacrificio non avrà in sé alcun esito positivo.

I temi della guerra, dell'amore e della morte, che per diversi aspetti sono alla base di tutta l'opera di Hemingway, trovano in Addio alle armi uno spazio e un'articolazione particolari. E' la vicenda stessa a stimolare emozioni e sentimenti collegati agli incanti, ma anche alle estreme precarietà dell'esistenza, alla rivolta contro la violenza e il sangue ingiustamente versato. La diserzione del giovane ufficiale americano conducente di autoambulanza, durante la ritirata di Caporetto, da atto apparentemente "inconsulto" viene rivelandosi, col ricongiungimento tra il protagonista e la donna della quale è innamorato, una condanna di quanto di inumano appartiene alla guerra. Ma anche l'amore, in questa vicenda segnata da una tragica sconfitta della felicità, rimane un'aspirazione che l'uomo insegue disperatamente, prigioniero di forze misteriose contro le quali sembra inutile lottare.

Più racconto lungo che romanzo, vista la semplicità della struttura e lo scarno sviluppo dell'azione, il libro nasce certamente all'ombra di un grande modello, il Moby Dick di Melville; ma se ne emancipa immediatamente perché Santiago, il vecchio pescatore cubano, è profondamente diverso da Achab. In lui non c'è traccia di tentazioni metafisiche o di titaniche manie di rivalsa: è solo un uomo povero, nell'emergenza di quasi tre mesi di pesca infruttuosa, che combatte una strenua battaglia col più grosso pescespada che abbia mai abboccato al suo amo. E' una battaglia per la sopravvivenza, che si protrae per giorni all'insegna di una fatica disumana e di un profondo rispetto dell'uomo per la sua vittima necessaria. Sono due forze della disperazione che si scontrano, quella del vecchio e quella del pescespada ferito, e non ci sarà vittoria. Il pesce morirà, ma durante il viaggio di ritorno, legato alla barca per l'impossibilità - date le dimensioni - di issarlo a bordo, verrà a poco a poco divorato dagli squali, nonostante la strenua e impari opposizione di Santiago.

La vita del torero, l'istante in cui uomo e toro diventano una cosa sola di fronte alla morte che può colpire l'uno o l'altro dei contendenti. Il mondo della corrida e dei suoi protagonisti in un libro che in un crescendo lento e sottile fa rivivere tutte le emozioni dei momenti frenetici e delle tensioni concitate della tauromachia.

Pubblicato nel 1926, Fiesta è il libro che ha consacrato il suo autore ventisettenne tra i più importanti scrittori americani di quella che Gertrude Stein definì la "generazione perduta". Basato su una materia ampiamente autobiografica, il romanzo narra le vicende di un gruppo cosmopolita di giovani espatriati, con le loro burrascose inquietudini esistenziali e sentimentali. Tra notti insonni trascorse a discutere e sbronzarsi nei caffè di Montparnasse o nelle arene di Pamplona, i protagonisti ricercano incessantemente emozioni e sensazioni sempre più forti, che li stordiscano e allontanino quel senso del nulla così incombente sulla generazione di Hemingway nel periodo tra le due guerre. In queste pagine lo scrittore raggiunge uno stile già maturo, calibratissimo tra cronaca e poesia, asciutto, essenziale, con dialoghi esemplari per incisività ed eleganza, grazie al quale riesce a mettere a nudo l'anima dei suoi personaggi e a infondere loro la vita. Un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN può essere trovata qui .

Quale emozione lascia un viaggio simile! Hemingway descrive con maestria un'Africa dolce, ricca e eterna nella sua diversità. Le rapide corse degli animali, dai kudu ai rinoceronti, le ampie vallate attraversate da fiumi argentati, le radure verdi e le montagne impervie sono presentate con uno stile agile, affascinante come le gazzelle Grant. Le descrizioni geografiche della savana e delle foreste lussureggianti catturano il lettore, mentre la penna determinata dell'autore coglie l'epicità di momenti indimenticabili, immortalati in fotografie in seppia. I tramonti africani e le fredde notti sotto un cielo stellato trasmettono una grande bellezza. La potenza e la dignità degli animali africani seducono e trasportano in un universo meraviglioso. Le pagine, ricche di sentimenti e semplicità naturale, materializzano il racconto, con animali che sembrano balzare fuori dal libro e profumi che ci raggiungono. L'autore esprime che un luogo lontano può diventare nostro se lo sentiamo tale, un sentimento che condivido per l'Africa. L'incontro con la popolazione sorridente attorno alla carovana arricchisce l'esperienza, trasformando la caccia in un momento di scambio culturale. Un Hemingway che si mimetizza spiritualmente in un'Africa leggendaria, rendendo il viaggio un'esperienza di vita unica.

Il romanzo "Avere e non avere" (1937) è un ritratto delle condizioni negli Stati Uniti durante la crisi all'inizio degli anni trenta. La storia si svolge tra la Florida e Cuba, in luoghi che l'autore conosceva bene e che erano strettamente legati alla sua vita. Il protagonista, Harry Morgan, lotta per la sopravvivenza e cerca di mantenere la propria famiglia, trovandosi in un mondo socialmente diviso in cui è difficile preservare la dignità umana. Negli anni trenta, mentre a Cuba infuriano i conflitti tra gruppi monopolistici della canna da zucchero e della frutta, si verificano frequentemente colpi di stato, rapine e omicidi. Le circostanze trascinano Harry in un vortice di eventi che lo costringono non solo a contrabbandare alcol e a trasportare illegalmente persone, ma anche a commettere omicidi con freddezza.

A cento anni dalla nascita di Hemingway, emerge un "romanzo autobiografico" inedito, scritto tra il 1954 e il 1956, dopo un safari di cinque mesi in Kenia. Conservato per anni nell'archivio della Kennedy Library di Boston, è stato recuperato dal figlio Patrick, che ha curato l'edizione. I lettori ritroveranno le atmosfere dei capolavori di Hemingway, da Verdi colline d'Africa a Le nevi del Kilimangiaro. Con uno stile limpido ed essenziale, l'autore descrive lunghi tramonti africani, leoni ruggenti, e il vento che agita le tende. Racconta la sua passione per il paesaggio, l'emozione della caccia e i rituali del safari, trasmettendo la sua fascinazione per l'Africa e la sua cultura. La narrazione inizia con il leggendario cacciatore Pop, amico di Hemingway, costretto a lasciare il campo, lasciando "Papa" a gestirlo in un clima di tensione. La vita prosegue tra battute di caccia e le insistenze di Miss Mary, la moglie di Hemingway, desiderosa di uccidere un leone. Si fa strada anche la figura di una giovane wakamba, bella e audace, che aspira a diventare la seconda moglie di "Papa". Intorno a loro, un coro di uomini del safari, leali e disincantati, riflette sulle differenze culturali. Hemingway si muove con disinvoltura tra queste due realtà, raccontando le sue esperienze e riflettendo sull'arte della scrittura, offrendo un autoritratto di grande importanza per comprendere il suo genio.

The second volume of the Library of America's definitive Hemingway edition features three classic works from the late 1920s and early 1930s, presented in newly corrected texts. Scholar Robert W. Trogdon has reinstated previously redacted expletives, corrected numerous errors, and restored Hemingway's preferred American spellings. This edition aims to provide readers with a more authentic representation of Hemingway's original intentions, making it a significant addition for fans and scholars alike.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short stories which touch on the same themes as the novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, reunciation, and the writer's life. The present collection includes all Hemingway's shorter fiction arranged chronologically from 'Up in Michigan' (1923) to 'Old Man at the Bridge (1938) and contains stories not currently available in any other UK edition of Hemingway's work's

Hemingway's letters, many previously unpublished, trace his literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris (1923-1925).

s/t: Selected Articles & Dispatches of Four DecadesSpanning the years from 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of pieces written by Hemingway ranges from articles for the "Toronto Star" and the Hearst newspapers to popular magazines such as "Esquire, Collier's" and "Look", and includes Hemingway's vivid eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

This volume brings together work from the extraordinary period of 1918 to 1926, in which Hemingway's famous prose style became fully formed. It includes his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst's International News Service, the indelible stories of In Our Time (1925), The Torrents of Spring (1925), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Edited by a Hemingway scholar, this landmark collection offers an unparalleled look at Hemingway's breakthrough years and at the extraordinary international modernist moment of which he was a crucial part. This volume features newly edited, corrected texts of In Our Time, The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, fixing errors and restoring Hemingway's original punctuation"--adapted from publisher description

Hemingway's letters record immediate experiences that inspired his art, trace the development of his works, and present an eyewitness account of contemporary history. With broad appeal for scholars and students of twentieth-century literature, culture, journalism, creative writing, and general readers of this influential Nobel Laureate.

First published in 1923, "Three Stories and Ten Poems" marked the beginning of the fictional writing career of one of the world's most famous writers, Ernest Hemingway. This short collection is marked by the story "Out of Season" in which Hemingway employed autobiographical elements and his "theory of omission" or the "iceberg theory". Also included here in this edition is Hemingway's first novella, "The Torrents of Spring". Appearing a few months before his more commercially successful novel "The Sun Also Rises", this novella was first published in 1926. The story is set in Michigan and concerns the love lives of two men who work in a factory together. Both are seeking the perfect wife and both have varying degrees of success in their endeavors. These romantic dramas are a comical premise however, and Hemingway spends the bulk of the book making fun of the popular writers of his day in hilarious and witty fashion. Written as a parody of Sherwood Anderson's "Dark Laughter", Hemingway also spoofs the works of James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and D. H. Lawrence. Together these works show the early development of one of the most notable authors of the twentieth century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

New illustrations by Tim Foley enhance this timeless classic, bringing fresh visual interpretations to Hemingway's renowned storytelling. The narrative explores profound themes of love, loss, and the human experience, showcasing Hemingway's signature style and depth. Readers can expect a blend of rich imagery and poignant prose, making it a captivating experience for both new and returning fans of the literary icon.

The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," along with seven previously unpublished stories. In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway’s ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved and popular novel ever, with millions of copies sold—now featuring early drafts and supplementary material as well as a personal foreword by the only living son of the author, Patrick Hemingway, and an introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway. The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. 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. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N.

Selections from Hemingway's writings provide insight into his concerns, personal philosophy, and literary occupations

This book is highlighted in the PBS film "Hemingway" by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, showcasing its relevance and connection to the celebrated author.

Imbued with Hemingway's wit, wisdom, and humor, Ernest Hemingway on Writing offers essential advice from an author who has had an astounding impact on contemporary American fiction.

This extraordinary collection of interviews with the iconic Nobel Prize-winning author will make you feel like you’re having a drink with Hemingway himself.Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his public image as America’s greatest author and journalist—and for the grand, expansive, adventurous way he lived his life. The prickly wit and fierce dedication to his craft that defined Hemingway’s life and work shine through in this unprecedented collection of interviews.

From childhood, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman, often writing about his favorite sport. This collection gathers his significant writings on various fishing experiences, from trout in northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream. In A Moveable Feast, he reflects on writing in a Paris café, expressing a desire to remain by the river, a sentiment echoed in his classic story, "Big Two-Hearted River." He also penned articles for the Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe, as well as for Esquire, detailing his growing enthusiasm for big-game fishing. His later works, The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream, highlight his deep knowledge of the ocean and its creatures. This diverse collection spans from the early Nick Adams stories to memorable chapters on the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises, showcasing the evolution of a great writer's passion and his ability to transform fishing into compelling literature. Anglers and literary enthusiasts alike will appreciate this important anthology.

This collection comprises: Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls; 25 complete short stories; and the Epilogue to Death in the Afternoon.

With contributions from writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Charles Darwin, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemingway and Dick King-Smith, this is a collection of over 20 stories and extracts about the animal kingdom.'

Alternate cover editions exist here and here. The famous Nick Adams stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life."But," as Philip Young writes in the preface, "Hemingway naturally intended his stories to be understood and enjoyed without regard for such considerations - as they have been for a long time." Three shots -- Indian camp -- The doctor and the doctor's wife -- Ten Indians -- The Indians moved away -- The light of the world -- The battler -- The killers -- The last good country -- Crossing the Mississippi -- Night before landing -- "Nick sat against the wall ..." -- Now I lay me -- A way you'll never be -- In another country -- Big two-hearted river -- The end of something -- The three-day blow -- Summer people -- Wedding day -- On writing -- An alpine idyll -- Cross-country snow -- Fathers and sons

Including rare documentary photographs, this epic, real-life love story offers a unique account of an event that shaped the life and work of one of the century's most charismatic and important authors and serves as an invaluable companion to the major motion picture it inspired. Original. Movie tie-in.

Avec Cinquante mille dollars, qui relate un combat de boxe truqué, L'invincible, l'un des premiers textes d'Hemingway sur la corrida, et Les tueurs, qui connut une magnifique adaptation cinématographique avec Ava Gardner et Burt Lancaster, ce recueil rassemble trois des plus célèbres et des plus représentatives nouvelles du grand écrivain américain.

From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. By turns funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Exploring the multifaceted persona of Ernest Hemingway, this collection showcases his public writings that reveal his self-marketing strategies over four decades. It includes fifty-four statements, twenty introductions, and twenty-nine reviews, illustrating how he cultivated his celebrity status while promoting his literary works. Through endorsements and personal commentary, such as his Nobel Prize acceptance and reflections on political events, the book highlights Hemingway's skillful blend of autobiography and marketing, ultimately portraying him as a master of self-promotion.

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen CraneThe Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. LawrenceBarn Burning by William FaulknerThe Sojourner by Carson McCullersThe Open Window by SakiFlowering Judas by Katherine Anne PorterThe Boarding House by James JoyceSoldier's Home by Ernest HemingwayThe Tree of Knowledge by Henry JamesWhy I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty. . . and twenty-five more of the century's best stories!

Hemingway won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1954 for the lod man and the sea.

Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about American expatriates in 1920s Europe is an essential read for lovers of classic literature. This handsome flexibound edition also features bright foil on the cover. The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first novel, and has long been regarded as his finest work. Amid the café society of 1920s Paris, a group of American expatriates seek their identities and independence, traveling to Pamplona, Spain, for the running of the bulls and other life-affirming adventures, showing the Lost Generation as people who were full of exuberance. In addition to the acclaimed novel, this volume includes Hemingway's novella The Torrents of Spring and the collection Three Stories and Ten Poems.

The book offers a unique perspective on Ernest Hemingway's role as a father through a collection of letters exchanged with his son Patrick over two decades. It provides intimate insights into their relationship, showcasing Hemingway's thoughts, emotions, and parenting style, revealing a more personal side of the renowned author.

A collection of Ernest Hemingway’s works from the early 1920s, including one of his most famous works, The Sun Also Rises, as well as short stories and poems. Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is also his most widely acclaimed. Set against the backdrop of Paris café society and the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, the novel focuses on the lives of American expatriates in the 1920s. Although the Lost Generation is often considered to have been damaged and dissolute in the aftermath of World War I, Hemingway portrays them as strong characters who are imbued with independence. This leather-bound edition also includes Hemingway’s novella The Torrents of Spring, the short story collection In Our Time (1925), and various other short stories, poems, and newspaper and magazine articles from the early 1920s. A scholarly introduction examines Hemingway’s life and writing career, providing readers with a deeper understanding of his works.

The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).

In 1959, Hemingway traveled to Spain to write three articles about bullfighting for "Life." This posthumously published text emerged during his late return to the country he cherished as a second home. The work captures his deep appreciation for the culture and the art of bullfighting, exploring themes of bravery, tradition, and the complex relationship between man and nature. Through vivid descriptions and personal reflections, Hemingway delves into the emotional and physical intensity of the bullfighting arena, revealing the profound impact it had on him. The narrative serves as both a tribute to the sport and a meditation on life, death, and the human experience, showcasing Hemingway's masterful prose and his enduring connection to Spain.

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. These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.

Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade.

When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose--enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story set in Africa. It was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."

The snows of Kilimanjaro and other short stories.

CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.

The collection features two stories and ten poems, showcasing Hemingway's early work after the loss of his original manuscripts in 1922. "Up in Michigan" stands out for its controversial exploration of sexuality, prompting ongoing debates about gender and emotional understanding in literature. Esteemed figures like Gertrude Stein and Edna O'Brien have commented on its impact, highlighting Hemingway's nuanced portrayal of women's emotions. This debut work reflects the distinctive style of one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

Een bitter liefdesidylle, waarvoor geen uitkomst is, tussen een kolonel in het Amerikaanse leger die in beide wereldoorlogen heeft gevochten, en een jonge Venetiaanse contessa.

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 Edmund Wilson, among others. He parodied the poems and sensibilities of Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Graves, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Gertrude Stein. He recast parts of poems by the likes of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, giving them his own twist. And he invested these poems with the preoccupations of his novels: sex and desire, battle and aftermath, cats, gin, and bullfights. Nowhere is his delight in drubbing snobs and overrefined writers more apparent. In this revised edition of the Complete Poems , the editor, Nicholas Gerogiannis, offers here an afterword assessing the influence of the collection, first published in 1979, and an updated bibliography. Readers will be particularly interested in the addition of "Critical Intelligence," a poem written soon after Hemingway's divorce from his first wife in 1927. Also available as a Bison Book: Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny by Mark Spilka.

An early gem from the greatest American writer of the 20th century, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style & substance, The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American & British writers akin to Anderson--such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce & John Dos Passos--come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller & stylist.