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The Killers is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, published in Scribners Magazine in 1927. After its appearance in Scribners, the story was published in Men Without Women, Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Nick Adams Stories. The writers depiction of the human experience, his use of satire, and the everlasting themes of death, friendship, and the purpose of life have contributed to make "The Killers" one of Hemingways most famous and frequently anthologized short stories.The story features Nick Adams, a famous Hemingway character from his short stories. In this story, Hemingway shows Adams crossing over from teenager to adult. The basic plot of the story involves two hitmen who enter a restaurant seeking to kill a boxer, a Swede named Ole Andreson, who is hiding out for reasons unknown, possibly for winning a fight.Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated stylewhich he termed the iceberg theoryhad a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinatingserves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an authors process (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldweary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionthis gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingways craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingways own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the authors son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the authors grandson Sean Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.
En plena ofensiva fascista, en algún lugar del Ebro, un anciano parece anclado a un puente, incapaz de reaccionar. No se sabe si espera la muerte o huye de ella. Se ha visto forzado a abandonar su pu
Nonostante la giovinezza, la voce di Hemingway e gia solida e riconoscibile, in questa raccolta che ospita le traduzioni italiane di tre racconti e dieci sue poesie. Il rapporto con la pesca e la caccia, le relazioni amorose, la guerra, la figura filiale e quella paterna: tutto questo, attraversato e toccato dalla parola hemingwayana. Una parola che, totale ed essenziale, avrebbe dettato le sorti della letteratura novecentesca mondiale, rivoluzionandola per sempre.
