Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is a gripping tale of endurance, dignity, and struggle. Set in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, just off the coast of Havana, it narrates the intense battle between an aged Cuban fisherman, Santiago, and his formidable adversary, a giant marlin. As Santiago ventures far out into the deep sea on...

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate, and full of wit. Looking back...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy, and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and...

A special edition of Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic, including the author's 1948 introduction, his early drafts, and all of the 47 alternative endings. With a foreword by Patrick Hemingway and an introduction by Sean Hemingway. In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded, and twice decorated. Out of his experience came...

It has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A towering figure in the pantheon of American letters, the leading voice of the 'lost generation', winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a Pulitzer Prize, Hemingway is known around the...

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in—and fascination with—big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and...

In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Fiesta captures this intoxicating era, portraying a passionate tapestry of love and desire. In the heart of Paris, amidst the lavish lifestyle, Jake finds himself deeply in love with Brett Ashley. She is an aristocratic, irresistibly beautiful woman, possessing an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot...

The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess - Anthony Burgess Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge....

In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded, and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer, as well as the men...

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. — Ernest Hemingway to a friend. A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties. His memories of life as an...

New illustrations by Tim Foley accompany this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway. First published in 1929, A Farewell to Arms has endured as one of Hemingway's most popular works. The novel was his first bestseller, which solidified him as a serious writer and a fixture in the American literary canon. Set against the brutal backdrop of the First World War,...

To Have and Have Not is Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics. "Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet." Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor...

VINTAGE DECO — Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s — 100 years on. This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne? Paris in the twenties — Pernod, parties, and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that...

Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece about American expatriates in 1920s Europe is an essential read for lovers of classic literature. This handsome flexibound edition also features bright foil on the cover. The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and has long been regarded as his finest work. Amid the café society of 1920s Paris, a group of American expatriates seek...

Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. 'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death' This is Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. Here are the sights, the sounds,...

A powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms. If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms. Across the River and into the Trees follows Richard Cantrell, an American colonel...

This leather-bound edition features Ernest Hemingway’s works from the early 1920s, including one of his most famous novels, The Sun Also Rises, as well as short stories and poems. Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is also his most widely acclaimed. Set against the backdrop of Paris café society and the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain,...

Islands in the Stream is Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical. Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in his consummate distinctive style. 'He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane' This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died,...

Fiesta takes you to Paris in the twenties, a time of Pernod, parties, and expatriate Americans living loosely on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, an aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful woman, whose abandoned and sensuous nature she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain, drawn by the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady...

New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway into the twenty-first century with vigour. For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway's masterworks and is widely regarded as a prime example of the great American writer's pioneering style and form. His first...

The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: "Fascinating...serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's process" (The New York Times). Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American...

Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honour tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, Ernest Hemingway travelled 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" and one of...

Ernest Hemingway's most beloved and popular novel ever, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now featuring a previously unpublished short story and additional supplementary material—plus a personal foreword by the author's only living son, Patrick Hemingway, and an introduction by the author's grandson Seán Hemingway. The last of his novels Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has...

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinating... serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's process and evolution. In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway tells the poignant story of an American ambulance driver...

Step into the cafes of 1920s Paris and the bullrings of Spain in Ernest Hemingway's unforgettable portrait of the Lost Generation. These are men and women drifting through a world forever changed by war, searching for meaning and connection. Follow Jake Barnes, a war-scarred American journalist, and Lady Brett Ashley, an independent woman torn between longing and freedom. Along with...

"There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other." — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s remains one of his most beloved works. Filled with tender memories of his first wife Hadley and their son Jack; irreverent...

Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication....

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,"...

Told in language of great simplicity and power, this story of courage and personal triumph remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity, it captures the essence of determination and resilience.

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by...

The only authorised edition of Ernest Hemingway's first novel, presented by the Hemingway family with illuminating supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library. "The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." --The Wall Street Journal Originally published in...

From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the 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...

Experience a brief encounter with Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winner and master of stripped-back prose, in this profound tale of endurance, dignity, and the eternal struggle between man and nature. Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever written. An ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to...

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean. "The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." —Sports Illustrated A century since its publication in...

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms. However, he was equally prolific as a writer of short stories, which touch on the same themes as his novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, renunciation, and the writer's life. The Collected...

Ernest Hemingway's iconic first novel, published in 1926, tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the nightclubs of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain. The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its...

The Norton Library edition of The Sun Also Rises features the complete text of the first edition, first printing (1926). Verna Kale's artful introduction highlights how the novel is steeped in the recent history of World War I and explores how Hemingway uses the scandalous social lives of his characters to probe gender norms. The Norton Library is a growing...