Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms
The greatest American novel to emerge from World War I,
A
Farewell to Armscemented Ernest Hemingway’s reputation as one
of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. Drawn largely from
Hemingway’s own experiences, it is the story of a volunteer ambulance driver
wounded on the Italian front, the beautiful British nurse with whom he falls in
love, and their journey to find some small sanctuary in a world gone mad with
war. By turns beautiful and tragic, tender and harshly realistic, A
Farewell to Armsis one of the supreme literary achievements
of our time.
Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
Published
in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises
stands as perhaps the most impressive first
novel ever written by an American writer. A roman à clef about a group of
American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris’s Left Bank to
Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the
center of a civilization spirtually bankrupted by the First World War to a
vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their
currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called “Lost”
the spirit of its age, and marked Ernest Hemingway as the preeminent writer of
his time.
In language of great simplicity and power, Hemingway tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck--he hasn't caught a fish in 84 days--who goes out in his small skiff one more time. This time he hooks a huge marlin. During his relentless ordeal, a long and agonizing battle with the marlin far out in the Gulf Stream, the old man faces long days of hunger and exhaustion, his courage and his respect for his adversary never flagging. The man is old and tired and at the end of his life, but he remains the archetypical Hemingway hero who refuses to accept defeat.
Actor Charlton Heston reads "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," a short story by Ernest Hemingway originally published in 1938. The story takes place in Africa, which Hemingway knew and enjoyed visiting as a big game hunter. As the scene opens, Harry, a writer, is stranded with his wife and their safari party in the African bush. Their truck has broken down and Harry's leg has developed gangrene which grows progressively worse.
Throughout the story, Harry recalls scenes from his past. The scenes Hemingway describes clearly stem from his own life; he spent summers as a child in the wilderness of upper Michigan, was wounded and decorated for bravery during the First World War, and lived in Paris between the wars. The story's theme of a writer struggling with his talent resembles Hemingway's own struggles and self-questionings.
Charlton Heston won an Academy Award in 1959 for his performance in the title role of "Ben-Hur." The story is presented in four segments and has been edited for length.
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