The Hemingway Reader
by Ernest Hemingway 
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"The selections are arranged chronologically. Chosen for variety and balance, they represent ... 'a body of work that has changed the course of storytelling and given new cadences to the language ... '"Tags
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It's Hemingway...that's really all that needs to be said for many.
If you haven't read Hemingway as an adult, I urge you to do so. (Meaning if your only Hemingway experience was reading in school for book reports and the like, ug...try again as an adult reading for pleasure.) Maybe he was a drunk womanizer, maybe he was a scared mentally ill writer, likely he was all of the above...whatever the case, the man could tell a story.
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If you haven't read Hemingway as an adult, I urge you to do so. (Meaning if your only Hemingway experience was reading in school for book reports and the like, ug...try again as an adult reading for pleasure.) Maybe he was a drunk womanizer, maybe he was a scared mentally ill writer, likely he was all of the above...whatever the case, the man could tell a story.
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A Book of the Month Club dividend hardcover. Selection of Hemingway's works by Charles Poore includes:
2 complete novels:
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Torrents of Spring.
Selections from 5 novels:
- from A Farewell to Arms
- from To Have and Have Not
- from For Whom the Bell Tolls
- from Across the River and into the Trees
- from the Old Man and the Sea
Selections from two non-fiction works:
- from Death in the Afternoon (the bullfight)
- from Green Hills of Africa
and also 11 short stories.
A good introduction to Hemingway, but I would prefer to have the complete novels and experience the writing as the author intended, fully in context. Also the 2" hardcover format is too heavy and awkward to read for long periods.
I'd give it 2 stars for the show more incomplete excerpts, 4 stars for the quality of literature, so will compromise on a 3 rating. show less
2 complete novels:
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Torrents of Spring.
Selections from 5 novels:
- from A Farewell to Arms
- from To Have and Have Not
- from For Whom the Bell Tolls
- from Across the River and into the Trees
- from the Old Man and the Sea
Selections from two non-fiction works:
- from Death in the Afternoon (the bullfight)
- from Green Hills of Africa
and also 11 short stories.
A good introduction to Hemingway, but I would prefer to have the complete novels and experience the writing as the author intended, fully in context. Also the 2" hardcover format is too heavy and awkward to read for long periods.
I'd give it 2 stars for the show more incomplete excerpts, 4 stars for the quality of literature, so will compromise on a 3 rating. show less
Book Description: New York Scribners 1953. First Edition. no dj.
A very scarce first edition of this collection.
A very scarce first edition of this collection.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in the family home in Oak Park, Ill., on July 21, 1899. In high school, Hemingway enjoyed working on The Trapeze, his school newspaper, where he wrote his first articles. Upon graduation in the spring of 1917, Hemingway took a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. After a short stint in the U.S. Army as a show more volunteer Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy, Hemingway moved to Paris, and it was here that Hemingway began his well-documented career as a novelist. Hemingway's first collection of short stories and vignettes, entitled In Our Time, was published in 1925. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, the story of American and English expatriates in Paris and on excursion to Pamplona, immediately established him as one of the great prose stylists and preeminent writers of his time. In this book, Hemingway quotes Gertrude Stein, "You are all a lost generation," thereby labeling himself and other expatriate writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford. Other novels written by Hemingway include: A Farewell To Arms, the story, based in part on Hemingway's life, of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse; For Whom the Bell Tolls, the story of an American who fought, loved, and died with the guerrillas in the mountains of Spain; and To Have and Have Not, about an honest man forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West. Non-fiction includes Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in East Africa; and A Moveable Feast, his recollections of Paris in the Roaring 20s. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea. A year after being hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, and depression, Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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