hemingway, ernest

Details the making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world. In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of events into his groundbreaking novel. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. Blume's vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read ahd how we think.

Ernest Hemingway's life was lived to the fullest. "He was six feet tall, hugh-chested, handsome, ebullient, a warrior, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker" says the author. At the age of eighteen he was awarded a medal for World War I. He then honed his literary craft and his macho image grew with his love of big-game hunting, deep-sea fishing, and bull-fighting in Spain. But by the 1940's the darkness of his alcoholism and violent rages began to affect him. He had become the patriarch of literature but he was plagued by depression and an insidious disenchantment with life. In this book the author explores Hemingway's fatal contradictions, revealing a man who was a much a creation as his books.

Contains a complete plot summary and analysis of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", as well as discussion of the characters and themes, and includes study questions.

Ernest Hemingway was a twentieth century American author and journalist known for his spare and direct writing style. Hemingway penned many novels and stories including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea, which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.

The history, the streets, the allure of Paris, seen through Ernest Hemingway's eyes.

Traces the wartime destinies of six individuals against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, among them are Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, and Arturo Barea, and makes use of unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, and recovered reels of film.

Examines the major works of Ernest Hemingway, with a primary focus on World War I and how it affected his writing.