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The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," along with seven previously unpublished stories.
In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author's short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"...
In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author's short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"...
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The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from...
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These essays by British and American scholars begin with the introduction insisting that Hemingway's position in American letters is still in question and a later claim that Hemingway's life gets in the way of his art. They include an examination of the unity of In Our Time, the "wholeness" of For Whom the Bells Tolls, and a study of the short stories after In Our Time. The essays suggest that it is time to reread Hemingway and discover whether or...
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A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time, having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce. In this second collection, Blackstone has compiled fifty-five of his short stories.
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Ernest Hemingway's early adulthood (1917--1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular success. In War + Ink, veteran and emerging Hemingway scholars, alongside experts in related fields, present pathbreaking research that provides important insights into this period of Hemingway's life.Comprised of sixteen elegantly written essays, War + Ink revisits...
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After discovering a box of notes belonging to Dr. John H. Watson dealing with Sherlock Holmes cases, a collector commissions famous writers to turn them into stories in their particular style. Among the authors are Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac. Part mystery, part literary spoof.
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A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.
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"This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author is a listener's delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these new recordings of classic stories will remind listeners of Ernest Hemingway's incomparable mastery of the short story form. Included are three short stories on war -- by one of history's greatest writers on the subject -- that were never published in any...
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Library of America volume 282
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Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction...
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"Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he's been writing short stories, his "Roy stories," that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness. Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Gifford's Roy stories amount to the coming-of-age novel he never wrote, and are...
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To have and have not: During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
The big sleep: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Dark passage: A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman...
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