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Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
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“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”
Ernest Hemingway
ERNEST HEMINGWAY : BOOKS/VIDEO
The Sun Also Rises - 1926
Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and establishing him as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation.
A Farewell to Arms - 1929
The best American novel to emerge from World War I- the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto - of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized - is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when Hemingway was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway. (product description)
To Have and Have Not -1937
Dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. (product description)
For Whom the Bell Tolls -1940
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. “If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,” Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time. (product description) FYI - The title of For Whom the Bell Tolls is from John Donne's Meditation XVII.
The Old Man and the Sea -1952
one of Hemingway's most enduring works told in language of great simplicity and power. 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. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. (product description)
A Moveable Feast -1964
Published posthumously, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. (product description)
Islands in the Stream -1970
First published nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale. (product description)
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway -1937
Definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories. Readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. (product description)
Hemingway, DVD ~1988, made for TV movie.
Old Man and the Sea, DVD ~1958, starring Spencer Tracy
For Whom the Bell Tolls, DVD ~ 1943, starring Gary Cooper
A Farewell to Arms, DVD ~ 1932, starring Helen Hayes
A Hemingway Odyssey: Special Places in His Life -A must-read for Hemingway enthusiasts - contains never-before-published interviews with people who knew him and observations of the special places he frequented, thus revealing how powerfully the waters Hemingway loved influenced his writing from his earliest days to his last novels.
Wherever Hemingway went--in Michigan, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Key West, Cuba, or Kenya--he managed to find special places that he plumbed both emotionally and with a hook and line. In this fascinating narrative, H. Lea Lawrence retraces the great writer's footsteps to these special places and records the recollections and insights offered by some of the people who recalled when Hemingway visited their town or fished with one of their relatives. Beginning with one of the writer's first short stories, "Big Two-Hearted River," which is reproduced in its entirety, an unmistakable relationship is established between Hemingway's angling experiences and various stages of his writing.
This unique approach to Hemingway's life sets it apart from the work of other biographers. Numerous photographs put readers in touch with his life, particularly with the waters where he loved to fish, from rushing trout streams to the Gulf Stream.
LINKS FOR LEARNING : ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
- The Hemingway Society - 'established in 1965 by Mary Hemingway, Ernest’s widow, "for the purposes of awakening, sustaining an interest in, promoting, fostering, stimulating, supporting, improving and developing literature and all forms of literary composition and expression." Within that context, the Foundation’s activities have emphasized "the promotion, assistance and coordination of scholarship and studies relating to the works and life of the late Ernest Hemingway."'
- Ernest Hemingway Bio
- Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center - Piggott, Arkansas
- Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum - Key West, FL
- Picturing Hemingway, A Writer in His Time - Archive of National Portrait Gallery exhibition.
- The Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Foundation Collection of Ernest Hemingway - collection of the books of Ernest Hemingway, with correspondence, transcripts, and proofs.
- Ernest Hemingway at 100, The Kansas City Star - Star articles, excerpts from period KC Star Style Guide
- Little Traverse History Museum - Northern Michigan connection
- Michigan Hemingway Society - Hemingway-related sites in the Horton Bay/Walloon Lake/ Petoskey/Harbor Springs Area
- A Ernest Hemingway Retrospective, CNN -
- Ernest Hemingway from Perspectives In American Literture (PAL) - research and reference guide to Hemingway materials, including the iceberg theory, movie adaptations and study questions from California State University.
- Ernest Miller Hemingway 1954 Nobel Laureate in Literature -or his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.
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