Ernest Hemingway (96 kníh)
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Ernest Hemingway Stařec a moře
Z příběhu rybáře, jenž se v nevelkém člunu pouští do zápasu s obrovským marlínem a potom do posledních sil bojuje s přesilou žraloků, kteří napadnou jeho úlovek, dokázal spisovatel na malém prostoru vytvořit existenciální drama...
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Ernest Hemingway The Essential Hemingway EN
The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Noble Prize-winning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from three of his greatest works of friction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, and For Whom the Bell Tolls; twenty-five complete short stories; and the breathtaking…
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Ernest Hemingway The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War EN
Inspired by Hemingway’s adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade. Featuring the author’s only full-length play, the works recount decadent parties and doomed love affairs amid the rubble, and effortlessly capture the devastating effects of the war on the inhabitants…
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Ernest Hemingway The First Forty-Nine Stories EN
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that…
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Ernest Hemingway The old Man and the Sea EN
Set in the Gulf Stream off coast of Havana Hemnigwayś amgnificent fable is the storyof an odl man, a young boy and giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man´s challenge to the elements in which he lives.
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Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea EN
The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response.
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Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro EN
Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a feat of imagination, and a masterpiece of description. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is one of…
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Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
Thinking Ink Media: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new…
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Ernest Hemingway The Torrents of Spring EN
Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up with Yogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a brilliant satire on conventional fiction. The characters they meet are absurd and yet strangely familiar. Short, fast-paced, funny, The Torrents of Spring throws light on Hemingway's later work -…
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Ernest Hemingway To Have and Have Not EN
Harry Morgan was hard - the classic Hemingway hero - rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the Depression. He ran risks, too, from stray coastguard bullets and sudden double-crosses. But it was the only way he could keep his boat, keep his independence, and keep his belly full... This classic novella was turned into a brilliant film by Howard Hawks - the film in which Humphrey…
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Ernest Hemingway True at First Light EN
The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on the hunters, forcing Hemingway not only to take on his new role of leader but, equally important, to assist his wife Mary in pursuing the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. Passionately detailing…
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Ernest Hemingway Winner Take Nothing EN
Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway…
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Ernest Hemingway Zelené pahorky africké CZ
Na rozdíl od mnoha jiných románů není v této knize ani jedna postava a ani jedna příhoda smyšlená… Zelené pahorky africké tvoří předěl ve spisovatelově tvůrčí dráze: jde o cestopisné vyprávění, se zaujetím líčící zážitky lidí uprostřed africké přírody. Vtipné úvahy o světě, životě a umění jsou prokládány vzrušujícími příhodami vášnivého lovce a milovníka zvěře.
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Ernest Hemingway Zelené pahorky africké
Zelené pahorky africké sú záznamom z loveckej výpravy vo východnej Afrike, ktorú Ernest Hemingway podnikol od 8. decembra 1933 do 17. februára 1934. Popri manželke Pauline Marie Pfeifferovej ho sprevádzali Charles Thompson, priateľ z floridského Key Westu (v knihe Karl Kabor), a profesionálny lovec a sprievodca Philip Percival (v knihe Jackson Phillips). V rozprávaní sa objaví aj náhodný hosť, Rakúšan Kandisky,…
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Ernest Hemingway Zelené pahorky africké
Na rozdíl od mnoha jiných románů není v této knize ani jedna postava a ani jedna příhoda smyšlená… Zelené pahorky africké tvoří předěl ve spisovatelově tvůrčí dráze: jde o cestopisné vyprávění, se zaujetím líčící ...
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