Islands in the Stream is the first of the posthumously published works of Ernest Hemingway. The book was originally intended to revive Hemingway’s reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951. The work, rough but seemingly …
Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, published in 1932. The book provides a look at the history and what Hemingway considers the magnificence of bullfighting. It also contains a deeper contemplation on the nature of fear and …
《渡河入林》,美国作家欧内斯特·海明威的长篇小说,执笔于1949年,当时他从意大利旅行打猎回国。故事以美国南北战争为背景,描写坎特威尔上校与19岁的意大利姑娘蕾纳塔的纯真爱情。一般评论家认为这是一部失败的作品,海明威饱受江郎才尽的讥评。 郝维称坎特威尔上校为海明威的最后一个浪漫英雄,他有三十年的从军生涯,在战场上杀死122名敌人,这些英勇的事迹足以让他的上司妒嫉。一战期间他来到意大利,遇见了美丽的蕾纳塔,两人发生了性关系,他陪着美女在威尼斯游船的种种情节,“矫揉造作甚至虚伪的对话”,只是一场白日梦。 莫顿在国家周刊中宣称“作者最糟糕的一部作品,缺乏创作力,语言拙劣,仅仅是自爽的玩票性质” …
Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction written by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Green Hills of Africa is divided into four parts: "Pursuit …
The Nick Adams Stories is a volume of short stories written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1972, a decade after the author's death. In the volume, all the stories featuring Nick Adams, published in various collections during Hemingway's lifetime, are compiled in a single collection. The Nick Adams Stories includes …
Men Without Women is the second collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway. The volume consists of fourteen stories, ten of which had been previously published in magazines. The story subjects include bullfighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. "The Killers", "Hills Like White …
True at First Light is a book by American novelist Ernest Hemingway about his 1953–54 East African safari with his fourth wife Mary, released posthumously in his centennial year in 1999. The book received mostly negative or lukewarm reviews from the popular press and sparked a literary controversy regarding how, and …
An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, The …