Bøger af Ernest Hemingway

When first published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose relationships unravel as they travel from Paris to the bullfights in Spain. Unsettling, provocative, and inspiring to this day, this legendary novel about loyalty, love, and betrayal challenges readers to discover what it takes to be true to oneself. This authoritative edition includes a new foreword that explores how to read Hemingway from the changed perspective of our time.

Ernest Hemingway's second collection of short stories commanded popular and critical attention when it was published in 1927. Hemingway examines men who are estranged from the women in their lives as they navigate situations involving bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. The author uses his hallmark style of precise language with an eye for realism. The collection contains fourteen stories, including "Hills Like White Elephants," "In Another Country," and "The Killers." A member of the expatriate Lost Generation circle, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) cultivated a larger-than-life image of vigorous masculinity complemented by an intense sensitivity. His writing drew upon his adventures as a big-game hunter, bullfighter, and fisherman as well as his service as an ambulance driver during World War I.

"This concise yet comprehensive edition of Hemingway's first major work, In Our Time (1925), offers an accessible introduction, an authoritative text, and a valuable selection of contextualizing materials. In a single volume, it brings together a relevant sample of Hemingway's early journalism, correspondence, initial reviews of the book, and an indispensable selection of recent criticism." --Zena Meadowsong, Rowan University

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Written in ten days, The Torrents of Spring was a satirical treatment of pretentious writers. Hemingway submitted the manuscript early in December 1925, and it was rejected by the end of the month. Finally, in January 1926, Max Perkins at Scribner's agreed to publish The Torrents of Spring in addition to Hemingway's future work. Scribner published the Torrents of Spring in May of that year; the first edition had a print run of 1250 copies.Set in northern Michigan, The Torrents of Spring concerns two men who work at a pump factory: World War I veteran Yogi Johnson and writer Scripps O'Neill. Both are searching for the perfect woman, though they disagree over this ideal.The story begins with O'Neill returning home from the library to find that his wife and small daughter have left him, explaining that "It takes a lot to mend the walls of fate." O'Neill, desperate for companionship, befriends a British waitress, Diana, at the restaurant where she works and immediately asks her to marry him.Diana makes an attempt to impress her spouse by reading books from the lists of The New York Times Book Review, including many forgotten pot-boilers of the 1920s. But O'Neill soon leaves her (as she feared he would when she first met him) for another waitress, Mandy, who enthralls him with her store of literary (but possibly made up) anecdotes.

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick". Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance and cunning.A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary on life and literature.

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 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 loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.

First published in 1927, MEN WITHOUT WOMEN represent some of Ernest Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these 14 stories, Hemingway begins to examine themes that would occupy his later works--casualties of war, uneasy relationships between men and women, and sport and sportsmanship. These stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.