Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises. The Old Man and the Sea. A Farewell to Arms.

by Ernest Hemingway

Includes 15 audio tapes. Over 19 hours of listening time. Digitally mastered.

Genres: Fiction, Classics

15 pages, Unknown Binding

First published June 1, 1966

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.

Reviews

[Peggy Brill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Good Anything of Hemingway is Excellent read. Just take a little time out of your life to read this book You will be Glad you did.

[Daren · Rating 4 out of 5]

For Whom The Bell Tolls ****
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro **
Fiesta ****
The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber ***
Across The River And Into The Trees ***
The Old Man And The Sea *****

So on average 3.5, rounded up to 4

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This review is for The Sun Also Rises. For some crazy reason I wasn't able to find just an entry for this one story. I love this book. Love, love, love this book. Hemingway in general is an amazing writer. Able to transport his readers to where ever the story may be. I tend to define a great writer as one that physically strikes a chord and gives me scenes or lines that I keep with me for many years after. In this book, I always think of the scene where they go fishing and they drop their bottles of wine in the river to keep them cold. I've always wanted to do that! Preferrably in Spain. The story is a fantastic one about the choices we make to align love with our expectations and perceptions.

[Ali's Library · Rating 3 out of 5]

La verdad es que el libro me gusto mucho. Al comienzo me costó bastante engancharme porque Hemingway tiene una forma de escribir muy detallada y profunda (en momentos eso hace que sea hermoso todo también). Una vez que comienza "el problema" realmente me enganche. Creo que si bien puede parecer una hsitoria muy tranquila sobre un pescador, si te detenes a pensar y leer con atención hay muchas cosas que se pueden analizar,la soledad, la lucha por los sueños, los propios límites, la voluntad del hombre, las dificultades inmensas que la vida nos pone delante y como reaccionamos a eso, etc. El final me dejó bastante triste pero hubo un plotwist que no me espero y termino haciendo que cerrará el libro con una especie de sonrisa en mi rostro. Si te gustan los clásicos y te gusta reflexionar con tu lectora ¡Este es el libro para eso!
P/d: todo transcurre en el mar y hay mucha info de peces

-Diversidad Challenge • " un libro que transcurra en el mar"

[Stuart Aken · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having read Hemingway when I was a young man, and enjoyed what I read, I found Across the River and Into the Trees disappointing. Much of the language, of course, is American and leaves a British reader uncertain of meaning, as context frequently doesn’t illuminate. I felt the book was a little flat, to the extent that I didn’t bother to read the whole work. None of the characters grabbed my attention and the story seemed to be meandering and going nowhere. With such a long ‘to read’ list, I felt it was not a good use of my limited reading time. Certainly, had this not had Hemingway’s name attached, I would have stopped reading after chapter two.

I know his fans will think me mad, deficient or perverse, but I can give only my own judgment on the work and I was disappointed. I’ve read, and enjoyed, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls and other works by this Nobel laureate. But this one failed to catch my attention, failed to draw me in sufficiently to persuade me to continue to invest my time in it. It may be that further reading would have redeemed the dull and uninteresting start but I wasn’t prepared to spend more time in finding out.

So, in spite of the usual quality of writing, expected of this past master, I can’t honestly recommend this book.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Snows of Kilimanjaro/Fiesta/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber/Across the River & into the Trees/The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Simon and Shuster Inc. 1940)(fiction) is a classic novel set in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan is a mercenary from the United States who is sent to lead a group of anti-fascist guerrilla fighters to blow up a bridge high in the mountains. It's a story of love, romance, and heartbreak, and death. It took almost two hundred pages for Hemingway to capture my interest, but once he did, I very much appreciated this tale. My rating: 6.5/10, finished 6/12/12.

[Jurgita Zoviene]

A few short stories I have read, so I have an opinion about this author. In fact, I am not a fan of this author. The story so far as superficial, without the deeper meanings of the dialogues, narrative action, place and time without credibility. It creates the impression that if you were one of the participants in this story, feel the obvious boredom. I hope this impression will change after reading more books by this author.

[Elliot · Rating 4 out of 5]

A patchy collection. I really enjoyed For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fiesta, Across the River and Into the Trees, (and the short stories the Snows of Kilimanjaro, the Gambler the Nun and the Radio, and Wine of Wyoming, but the Old Man and the Sea and some of the other short stories were a bit meh. Altogether a decent selection of Hemingway, providing some great examples of his Iceberg Theory.

[Git]

Only "Fiesta"

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hemingway's short stories were his best work. I just got a new copy of this for Christmas, and I am reading it again!

[Dona]

The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway (1928)

[Mark Stratton]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1930)

[Vanlilith · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Sylvia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had written a long review and something went wrong in GR when saving the review. I'm not going to write it again.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 2013 Quest

[Edin Ajdinović · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice portrayal of guerrilla lifestyle and Spanish civil war.Clash of ideologies between Republicans and Nationalist are well portrayed.

[Laurie Hill]

Great, great books are never out of date, the war changes, styles change but humans, not so much.