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FIFTH COLUMN AND FOUR STORIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR (The Scribner Library. Contemporary Classics)

Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s. These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.

Hunting with Hemingway

by Hilary Hemingway

Fifteen years after her father's death, Hilary Hemingway received her curious inheritance. It was an audiocassette filled with the voice of her father telling outrageous stories about his hunting expeditions with his famous older brother, Ernest Hemingway. In this mesmerizing book, Hilary transcribes these stories, revealing the bond between two larger-than-life brothers-and tells of her own quest to make peace... (more)

Murder in the Latin Quarter (A Who's Who Dunit Mystery)

Murder in the Latin Quarter (A Who's Who Dunit Mystery)

by Tony Hays

This novel is a murder mystery set in Paris in the early part of the 20th century involving well known literary characters.

Hemingway's Quarrel With Androgyny

by Mark Spilka

Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny confronts the entrenched mystique surrounding the hard drinker, bullfighter, and creator of characters steeled by their own code. Spilka stresses Hemingway's lifelong dependence on and secret identification with women, and in doing so shatters the myths of male bonding and heroic lives of "men without women." He develops the biographical, literary, and cultural implications of... (more)

Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)

Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)

by Carl P. Eby

In Hemingway's Fetishism, Carl Eby demonstrates in painstaking detail and with stunning new archival evidence how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a... (more)

Less than a Treason: Hemingway in ParisPeter Griffin

Less than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris

by Peter Griffin

This newest installment of Peter Griffin's acclaimed biography of Ernest Hemingway covers Hemingway's years in Paris, the publication of his first important works (including The Sun Also Rises) and provides new insight into his relationships with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins.

The Old Man And the C

by Carole Jean Tremblay

Meet Charlie. He’s never been the luckiest fisherman on the coast, just the oldest (and to hear him tell it, the smartest). With his sun-seasoned face and vegetable- brush beard, he looks like King Neptune himself. Charlie’s dream is to catch the biggest fish in the sea, so when Roger down at the bait shop announces the first annual Fish-or-Cut-Bait Fishing Tournament, Charlie signs up. In his trusty rowboat, the... (more)

Hemingway's ParisMorrill Cody

Hemingway's Paris

by Morrill Cody

Captures all the flavor of a golden era.-- In the wildest day of Paris after World War I, the gathering place for literary and artistic celebrities were the cafes and bars on the Left Bank. The most famous bartender in Paris was Jimmie Charters. He knew intimately all the celebrities, the least not being Earnest Hemingway, who wrote the introduction to this astonishing collection of Jimmie's memoirs.

O Velho e o MarErnest Hemingway