Ernest Hemingway – författare

Och solen har sin gång (The Sun Also Rises) av Ernest Hemingway räknas som en av världslitteraturens mest inflytelserika romaner. Boken är i ganska stor utsträckning självbiografisk. Huvudpersonen Jake Barnes har åtskilliga drag gemensamma med Hemingway själv. Handlingen kan tyckas enkel – Jake umgås med sina vänner i Paris, det är i mitten av 1920-talet, de flesta av romanens personligheter är amerikaner eller engelsmän med en mer eller mindre tillkämpat nonchalant inställning till livet – lika stilfullt ansvarslösa som stilfullt coola – men egentligen desperat törstande efter kärlek och livsmening. I nyöversättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. "Denna bok har betytt så mycket för mig. Nu har den kommit i nyöversättning. Översättningen är alldeles utmärkt." Ingalill Mosander, Go'kväll

Ernest Hemingways roman Den gamle och havet i nyöversättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Detta Hemingways kanske mest beundrade mästerverk handlar om den ärrade gamle fiskaren Santiago som åker ut på havet i sin lilla båt 84 dagar i rad utan fiskelycka. I hamnen kastar byborna medlidsamma blickar efter honom när han kommer in tomhänt kväll efter kväll och med möda börjar bära sin tunga mast uppför backen till den lilla stugan. Han är nog slut nu, tänker de, slut som fiskare, slut som man. Men Santiago är förvissad om att han har mer att ge, han ska minsann visa dem!

The erotic novel that Hemingway suppressed during his own lifetime is set in the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s and tells the story of David Bourne, his glamorous wife, and the dangerous sexual games they play. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Ernest Hemingways roman Över floden in bland träden (Across The River And Into The Trees) i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Här kommer den kanske mest gripande av Hemingways alla romaner. Det är en romantisk historia om en krigstrött överste som genomlevt andra världskrigets fasor och nu träffar en ung italiensk grevinna i Venedig. Men det är förstås inte en vanlig romantisk berättelse – eftersom det är en Hemingwayberättelse... Överste Cantwell (som har många drag gemensamma med Hemingway själv) är femtio år och hjärtsjuk. Nu är han ute på andjakt utanför Venedig. Han tänker tillbaka på sitt liv, på sina bravader och sina misslyckanden under kriget men mest tänker han på Renata, den unga kvinna han nyligen träffat i Venedig och har ett blossande kärleksförhållande med. Kärleken till Renata är het och besvarad men översten plågas av krigsminnen: "Han tittade upp mot ljuset i taket och uppfylldes av fullständig förtvivlan när han mindes förlusten av sina bataljoner, och varje enskild soldat. Han kunde aldrig hoppas på att få ett sådant regemente igen. Han hade inte byggt upp det själv. Han hade ärvt det. Men för en tid hade det varit hans största glädje. Nu var varannan man i det död och nästan alla andra sårade. I magen, i huvudet, i fötterna eller händerna, i halsen, ryggen, den tursamma baken, den olycksaliga bröstkorgen och alla de andra ställena. Granatsplitter i skogsmark träffar folk på ställen där de aldrig skulle ha blivit sårade i öppen terräng. Och alla de sårade var sårade för livet. – Det var ett bra regemente, sa han. Man skulle till och med kunna säga att det var ett vackert regemente, tills jag förstörde det på andras order. – Men varför är du tvungen att lyda dem när du vet bättre? – I vår armé lyder man som en hund, förklarade översten. Man kan bara hoppas att man har en klok herre." Som Christian Ekvall förtydligar i sitt efterord har denna romanintrig många kopplingar till Hemingways eget liv. Hemingway var mycket riktigt med i flera skeenden under slutet av andra världskriget. Han ville gärna påskina att han befunnit sig ännu närmare de avgörande krigshändelserna än han faktiskt gjort och det genom att låta sina romanfigurer skrodera om modiga insatser vid landstigningen i Normandie, striderna i Hürtgenskogen, befrielsen av Paris och så vidare. En annan nära koppling mellan romanen och verkligheten är överste Cantwells kärlek till den unga grevinnan Renata. I verkligheten hette hon Adriana Ivancich. Hemingway träffade henne i Venedig och uppvaktade henne flitigt trots att han då var gift med sin fjärde fru Mary. Adriana bodde till och med några år i Hemingways hem på Kuba, med avsevärda störningar för att inte säga slitningar i husfriden som följd.

The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought'Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' Sunday Times'The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish' Guardian

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history - THE BOOK THAT WON ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURESet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish.Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superfluous in this widely admired masterpiece, which once and for all established his place as one of the giants of modern literature.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. Sure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced. In the world of letters it is a unique insight into a great literary generation, by one of the best American writers of the twentieth century.

Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla fighters to destroy a bridge, Jordan finds himself falling in love with a young Spanish woman and clashing with the guerrilla leader over the risks of their mission.One of the great novels of the twentieth century, For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published in 1940. It powerfully explores the brutality of war, the loss of innocence and the value of human life.This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest Hemingway spares nothing in his denunciation of the horrors of combat, yet vividly depicts the courage shown by so many. In writing A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway was inspired by his own wartime experience as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. First published in 1929, the novel made his name and remains one of his finest works. This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion, A Farewell to Arms offers a unique and unflinching view of the world and people, by the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American historyHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge.Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer on the republican side of the Spanish Civil War, has been sent to handle the dynamiting.There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. It is in these desperate days that his fate will be set.

This is Hemingway's East African safari journal.'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa'Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.'In a class by itself - the country at all hours shines bright and clear in these pages' Daily Telegraph'The best-written story of big-game hunting anywhere' New York Times

One of Hemingway's finest novels, A FAREWELL TO ARMS was published in 1929 when the author was at the height of his power, It draws on his own experiences serving with the Italins in World War One when he was severely wounded in action and awarded the Croce de Guerra. This is a vivid portrait of men at war which also explores their deeper responses to the cruetly and heroism of Battle

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it'High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general' Sunday Telegraph'One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce' Observer**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil WarHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...'One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce' Observer**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.