The Hemingway Reader

by Ernest Hemingway

Book Overview

The Hemingway Reader, 1953. A selection of Hemingway classics (selected by Charles Poore). Hardcover with dust jacket, 652 pages, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684151642
• ISBN13: 9780684151649
• Release Date: January 1953
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Two Complete Novels, Several Short Stories and Excerpts from a Master Storyteller

From Foreword by Charles Poore "This book is planned for the pleasures and rewards of reading. The selections are arranged chronologically. They were chosen mainly to give variety and balance. This is the full text of a novel that set the flags for a generation, 'The Sun Also Rises,' and a freely sketched satire on the eternal pom-posibilities of unconventionality, 'The Torrents of Spring.' There are complete episodes from 5 other novels in Hemingway's chronicle of modern chivalry: 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'To Have and Have Not,' 'for Whom the Bell Tolls,' 'Across the River and Into the Trees,' and 'The Old Man in the Sea' There are chapters on Spain and the art of the torero..from 'Death in the Afternoon,' and the wonderful dialogue on American writing from 'Green Hills of Africa.' There are 11 Short Stories. The stories and the novels together represent a body of work that has changed the course of storytelling and given new cadences to the language. They are not gathered here, though, to illustrate academic principles or to pepper elegies. They are alive, a part of experience that tells us more vividly that any casual actuality ever can, where men and women have been, and what they have done and left undone in this brightest and bloodiest of the centuries." ***** Contents Include: from 'In Our Time': 'Big Two-Hearted River' 'The Torrents of Spring' 'The Sun Also Rises' from 'A Farewell to Arms': 'The Retreat from Caporetto (Book 3) 'Stresa' - Chapters 35, 36, 37 Stories: 'A Way You'll Never Be' 'Fifty Grand' 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place' 'The Light of the World' 'After the Storm' from 'Death in the Afternoon' 'The Bullfight (ch 7); 'The Last Chapter' from Green Hills of Africa: Chapter 1 from To Have or Have Not: 'One Trip Across' from 'For Whom the Bell Tolls': 'Sordo's Stand' STORIES: 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' 'The Capital of the World' 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' 'Old Man at the Bridge' 'The Fable and the Good Lion' from 'Across the River and Into the Trees' Venice and the Veneto (Chptrs 4, 5, & 6) from 'The Old Man and the Sea': 'The Fight with the Sharks'