Author : Mark Frankel
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909395137
Chardonnay and shopping trolleys. A visit to the psychiatrist and a trip to another planet. A famous footballer and a hitman who reads Hemingway. A church, a supermarket and the legend of King Arthur. A man from Riga who wears his shoes on the wrong feet. An art gallery security guard watches the world go by. Planes, trains and a space elevator. Kitchen appliances, satellite TV and a fully equipped chips irrevocator.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476770417
This stunning collection of short stories by Nobel Prize–winning author, Ernest Hemingway, contains a lifetime of work—ranging from fan favorites to several stories only available in this compilation. In this definitive collection of short stories, you will delight in Ernest Hemingway's most beloved classics such as “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “Hills Like White Elephants,” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147677014X
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. “I had quite a trip,” the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues.
Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2001-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375726934
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476770425
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. Sure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
Author : Joy Dickinson
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806520926
Includes information on John Berendt, Wendell Berry, Rick Bragg, James Lee Burke, Olive Ann Burns, Truman Capote, Kate Chopin, Andrei Codrescu, Pat Conroy, Vicki Covington, Dave Robicheaux, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Fannie Flagg, Shelby Foote, Forrest Gump, John Grisham, Allan Gurganus, Alex Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston, Jan Karon, Jack Kerouac, Harper Lee, Nancy Lemann, Bobbie Ann Mason, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery OʼConnor, Walker Percy, Edgfar Allan Poe, Reynolds Price, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rhett Butler, Anne Rice, Carl Sandburg, Scarlett OʼHara, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, etc.
Author : Gino Leineweber
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3911320043
This book describes how Hemingway became what he was: one of, if not the most excellent writer of his time. But he was also a legendary drinker obsessed with his masculinity, a womanizer and macho man, a lover of boxing and bullfighting. If you want to know how these characteristics developed in the young Ernest Hemingway, you have to go back to his childhood and youth in Michigan. Hemingway's vocation as a writer was tremendous because the imprints he received there as a young person flowed into his works: Independence, experience, confidence, strength, courage, and talent. The author follows Hemingway in his literary footsteps just as he followed Hemingway to Michigan, the region of his childhood and youth. To the places where Hemingway learned to fish, hunt, drink, and meet girls and where he learned to concentrate seriously on his writing.
Author : Paula McLain
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0748119256
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity. Ernest and Hadley's marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then, at last, Ernest's ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition - not least from a woman intent on making him her own . . .
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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, heart-wrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.
Author : Mariel Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1941393756
A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America’s most famous families: the Hemingways. She opens her eyes. The room is dark. She hears yelling, smashed plates, and wishes it was all a terrible dream. But it isn’t. This is what it was like growing up as a Hemingway. In this deeply moving, searingly honest new memoir, actress and mental health icon Mariel Hemingway shares in candid detail the story of her troubled childhood in a famous family haunted by depression, alcoholism, illness, and suicide. Born just a few months after her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, shot himself, it was Mariel’s mission as a girl to escape the desperate cycles of severe mental health issues that had plagued generations of her family. Surrounded by a family tortured by alcoholism (both parents), depression (her sister Margaux), suicide (her grandfather and four other members of her family), schizophrenia (her sister Muffet), and cancer (mother), it was all the young Mariel could do to keep her head. In a compassionate voice she reveals her painful struggle to stay sane as the youngest child in her family, and how she coped with the chaos by becoming OCD and obsessive about her food, schedule, and organization. The twisted legacy of her family has never quite let go of Mariel, but now in this memoir she opens up about her claustrophobic marriage, her acting career, and turning to spiritual healers and charlatans for solace. Ultimately Mariel has written a story of triumph about learning to overcome her family’s demons and developing love and deep compassion for them. At last, in this memoir she can finally tell the true story of the tragedies and troubles of the Hemingway family, and she delivers a book that beckons comparisons to Mary Karr and Jeanette Walls.
