This collection comprises: Fiesta, Hemingways 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 t
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingways lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingways well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is examination of the lure of the hunt and 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.
Ernest Hemingway's great post-World War I novel, his first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation," is a vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and despair of postwar life. His hero, Jake Barnes, has suffered a war injury that has left him impotent. Hopelessly in love with the seductive and flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley, Jake leaves Paris to accompany Brett, her drunken fiance, and an American boxer to Pamplona, watching helplessly as she falls for a young bullfighter. The expatriate crowd that Hemingway portrays so vividly passes their lives in an aimless alcoholic haze, against which the local fiestas and the running of the bulls seem, by contrast, full of vitality--a quality that is alien to them. The settings are romantic--the bull ring, the Paris streets, the bars and cafes and hotels--but Hemingway invests them all with a disillusion that undercuts the glamour of expatriate life. When THE SUN ALSO RISES was published, in 1926, Hemingway, at age 28, was established as a rising literary star. He wrote the first draft in an astonishing two months: a feat made possible, no doubt, by his close identification with his desperate hero and by his urgent need to tell the story--and to articulate his own melancholy feelings about his generation: where it came from and where it seemed to be going. It was with this novel that he found not only his distinctive themes, but also his spare, lyrical voice--a voice that understands the power of the apt detail but also knows, unerringly, what to leave out.
Ernest Hemingway's literary apprenticeship was served in journalism, a career that he pursued for over four decades. From his early work as a correspondent for the Toronto Star in Europe during the 1920s, through his inimitable articles for Esquire and his first-hand reports of the Spanish Civil War, to the mellow, ironic chronicle of his last African adventures, few correspondents have produced a more impressive body of work.
Un episodio di guerriglia durante la guerra civile spagnola, un ponte che deve essere fatto saltare, un piccolo gruppo di partigiani uniti dall''unica speranza che "un giorno ogni pericolo sia vinto e il paese sia un posto dove si vive bene"; in mezzo a tutto questo, Robert Jordan, il dinamitardo, l''ingles giunto da Madrid per organizzare la distruzione del ponte. Robert e un irregolare nell''esercito repubblicano, un intellettuale votato a una causa che, tra mille dubbi, egli sente non meno sua degli altri: perche al di la di ogni errore e di ogni violenza ci sia pace e liberta per tutti.
Despus de la Primera Guerra Mundial, Jake Barnes, un periodista estadounidense que fue herido en la contienda, se reencuentra con Brett Ashley ?una enfermera que tambin ha participado en la guerra? en Pars, ciudad donde empezaran a relacionarse con la comunidad norteamericana. Desde la capital francesa estos dos protagonistas se dirigen junto con Bill, Mike y Cohn a España, donde tienen previsto ir a pescar y acudir a las fiestas de San Fermn en Pamplona. Durante las celebraciones, que el autor describe con gran detalle, se suceden una serie de problemas amorosos entre Brett su prometido Michael Cohn ?con el que ha mantenido un romance tiempo atras? y un joven y prometedor torero llamado Pedro Romero.
Le jeune Paco arrive à Madrid avec un rêve : devenir torero. Serveur dans une petite pension de famille, il fait la connaissance d'Enrique qui décide de lui enseigner les rudiments du métier. Francis et Margot Macomber, un couple de riches Américains, font un safari de chasse en Afrique. Après s'être enfui devant un lion blessé, Macomber décide de se racheter en tuant un buffle. Deux histoires de rêves brisés, deux nouvelles poignantes et passionnées pour découvrir l'univers de l'un des plus grands écrivains américains.
