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.
Frédéric Henry, jeune Américain volontaire dans les ambulances sur le front d'Italie, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, est blessé et s'éprend de son infirmière, Catherine Barkley. Avec Catherine, enceinte, il tente de fuir la guerre et de passer en Suisse, où le destin les attend. Un des meilleurs romans de guerre. Un des plus grands romans d'amour.
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.
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.
This masterpiece of time and place tells a profound and timeless story of courage and commitment, love and loss, that takes place over a fleeting 72 hours. Drawing on Hemingway's own involvement in the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls reflects his passionate feelings about the nature of war and the meaning of loyalty.
Ernest Hemingway sempre considerou suas novelas curtas mais importantes que seus romances. Para ele, escrever uma boa história — concisa, precisa, verdadeira — era o ápice da arte literária. Este vol
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.
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