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Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography

Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography

by Carlene Brennen

In 1943 Ernest Hemingway, living in Cuba with his third wife and eleven cats, wrote to his first wife: One cat just leads to another. . . . The place is so damned big it doesn’t really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time. . . . He always took great pleasure in writing to his family about his cats and how they were getting along. Family and... (more)

Hemingway on Hunting

by Ernest Hemingway

Chronicles Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life, from the plains of Africa to the American West.

Hemingway's Hurricane

by Phil Scott

The all-but-forgotten story of an infamous tragedy that became the political scandal of its era When the strongest hurricane of the 20th century slammed into the Florida Keys on Labor Day Weekend, 1935, it was as if its 200-mile-an-hour winds had conspired with politics, the Depression, and petty bureaucracy to turn disaster into tragedy. Among the 423 dead were 259 World War I veterans who had been... (more)

Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald

by Scott Donaldson

Paris in the 20s: The era of literary expatriates Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to burn in the imagination as a time of unparalleled glamour and romance. Here, in Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald , prize-winning biographer Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologyzing to create a true, multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fueled by admiration, jealousy, and liquor-a heady mixture of literary... (more)

Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky

Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky

by Agnes Von Kurowsky

Including rare documentary photographs, this epic, real-life love story offers a unique account of an event that shaped the life and work of one of the century's most charismatic and important authors and serves as an invaluable companion to the major motion picture it inspired. Original. Movie tie-in.

Ernest Hemingway: Writer and Adventurer (People to Know)

Ernest Hemingway: Writer and Adventurer (People to Know)

by Della A. Yannuzzi

Describes the life and career of the Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner whose accounts of his adventures and new style of writing brought him worldwide recognition.

My Brother, Ernest Hemingway

by Leicester Hemingway

Provides a revealing and intimate portrait of one of the great writers of our century.

Literary Topics: Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement (Literary Topics Series)

Literary Topics: Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement (Literary Topics Series)

by Kirk Curnutt

This beautifully produced new series of literary reference works, "The Gale Study Guides to Great Literature," is designed to support the literary research of high school and college students. The series in turn consists of three subseries: Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces, and Literary Topics. These focus on the individual authors, works, and concepts frequently studied in the current literature curricula.... (more)

ERNEST HEMMINGWAY the Search for CourageKeith Ferrell

ERNEST HEMMINGWAY the Search for Courage

by Keith Ferrell

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

by Michael Palin

A look at the life of Ernest Hemingway follows the author of Pole to Pole as he retraces Hemingway's life, from fly fishing in Northern Michigan all the way to Cuba, with 175 color photographs illustrating the journey. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

Best Of Bad Hemingway, Vol 2: More Choice Entries from Harry's Bar & American Grill Imitation Hemingway CompetitionHarry's Bar & American Grill

Best Of Bad Hemingway, Vol 2: More Choice Entries from Harry's Bar & American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition

by Harry's Bar & American Grill

With all the wickedly clever intonations of the original volume, Volume Two contains fifty-two Heminway parodies selected from the thousands of entries submitted over eleven years to the Imitation Hemingway Competition. Introduction by Digby Diehl; caricatures.

Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship

Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship

by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

With substantial additions and new revelations to Bruccoli's groundbreaking earlier work--including correspondence only recently discovered--this book provides the definitive account of the writers' unpredictable friendship, from their first meeting in Paris in 1925 to Fitzgerald's untimely death in Hollywood in 1940.

The American Short Story -- A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar

A collection of short stories by American authors from Wahington Irving to Saul Bellow.

The Young Hemingway

by Michael S. Reynolds

A National Book Award finalist . Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and... (more)

Major Writers of America II: Dickinson, Mark Twain, James, Adams, Crane, Dreiser, O'Neill, Frost, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Eliot, Faulkner

Hemingway's Key West

by Stuart B. McIver

Includes a 2-hour walking tour of Key West, plus a tour of Hemingway’s favorite places in Cuba The only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of them all. This vivid portrait of Ernest Hemingway’s Key West reveals... (more)

A Reader's Guide to Ernest Hemingway (Reader's Guides)

A Reader's Guide to Ernest Hemingway (Reader's Guides)

by Arthur Waldhorn

Arthur Waldhorn discusses Hemingway's sense of the world as well as his writing style. He also analyses, in chronological order, the writings - beginning with the early stories and sketches - tracing major patterns that recur throughout Hemingway's career. His approach to each book is a critical examination of its achievements and failures.

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961Carlos (Editor) Baker

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

by Carlos (Editor) Baker

Ernest Hemingway: Rediscovered

by Norberto Fuentes

Ernest Hemingway's life was as romantic and exciting as anything in his novels and stories, and this magnificently illustrated large-format volume captures many of his best years. The text, recounting Hemingway's life and times between 1939 and 1960, is a remembrance by Norberto Fuentes, who was Hemingway's good friend during that period. In the book's vivid photographs, we see Hemingway on African safaris, in... (more)

Big two-hearted river

by Ernest Hemingway, Roger Stephens

Three vignettes feature Nick Adams, one of Hemingway's most colorful personalities, as the central character. Stephens's well-modulated voice seems inappropriate for the shocking battlefield descriptions filled with the dead and dying in the first story. He portrays a doctor's anguish and depression when his wife dies in the second short story. Stephen's melodic voice and dynamic descriptions capture the memorable... (more)

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