Why buy one masterpiece novel by Ernest Hemingway when you acquire four in a stunning leatherbound edition? This collection contains the fiction that won the American author a Nobel Prize for Literature: The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. A memorable gift at any time of the year.
During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.
Hemingway -- himself a great sportsman -- liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.
© The Nobel Foundation 1954.
EZEKILL
Posted Thu Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2011
I read a few Hemingway stories back in High School. My teacher was very thorough in his explanation of the "lost generation" writers and their influence on literature. At the time I found it pretty interesting but it wasn't until a few years later that I have come to truly appreciate authors like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Hemingway in particular interests me and the themes and motifs in his stories speak to me.
This particular book collects 4 stories by Hemingway. The stories themselves are the ones he wrote with no changes obviously. The book itself is attractive. It's just how it looks on the website. It's bound pretty nice in tight in leather and it's quite comfortable to read wile in bed or on a desk.
If your a fan of his stories don't pass this one up. I do hope we get more leather bound classic collections like this from other authors like John Stienbeck, Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Posted Wed Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2012
Beautiful book, both in looks and content. If you are a Hemingway fan this is definitely a long-term keeper for your collection!
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Posted Sat Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2013
You must have it!
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Posted Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2013
I gave this book to a young friend just starting to read the classics. He loves this entire B&N leatherbound series. I find it to be a wonderful value and a fantastic way to help readers build a library.
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Posted Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2013
The book is beautiful but overall I would not read it if I were you. The gold around the edges of the paper comes off in a dust and embeds itself in the skin. I'm worried about people being injured by this book. Also, the fact that it was printed in China is a little unsettling considering their propensity for lead based paints. Also, some of the pages aren't cut right and have been folded inside so that you can't see the missing gold lined pages. If you want something that will look nice sitting on or off your book case, buy it. If you want to be able to hold and read a beautiful book with out worrying about gold flakes getting embedded into your skin or flying into your eyes, don't waste your money.
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