Resultados de "Ernest Hemingway" en Todas las categorias

Publicada por primera vez en 1970, nueve años después de la muerte del autor, Islas a la deriva cuenta la historia de un artista aventurero, Thomas Hudson, cuya personalidad recuerda mucho a la del propio Hemingway. La novela arranca en 1930 con las experiencias del protagonista como pintor en la isla de Bimini, situada en plena corriente del Golfo, para detenerse en sus actividades antisubmarino cerca de la costa de Cuba durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo Narration—Male Ernest Hemingway's most beloved and popular novel—now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader. The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of...

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works...

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century. Featuring 18 essential modern classics from Orwell, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more, and read by a cast of incredible narrators including Iwan Rheon, Ben Allen, Karen Cass, Nathan Osgood, amongst others, this is an essential addition to your library.

By Ernest Hemingway - The classic tale of Robert Jordan a young American serving in the anti-fascist guerrilla movement during the Spanish Civil War. Fighting both for the cause and his love, this classic novel in audio play format shows the brutality of civil war. One of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is one of the defining American novels of the twentieth century. Set against the Italian front during the First World War, the story follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving with the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, the English nurse with whom he falls deeply in love. Around them, war becomes less a matter of glory than of confusion, exhaustion, retreat, and loss.

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938. Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers...

"El regreso de un soldado" de Ernest Hemingway es una historia sobre el regreso a casa de un soldado herido de la Primera Guerra Mundial y su reintegración en una comunidad rural. Cuando regresa, descubre que todas sus relaciones han cambiado, especialmente su relación con su madre, con la que antes tenía una buena relación. La madre se muestra ahora reticente, como si deseara romper el vínculo entre ellos, porque siente que él no podrá entender las experiencias que ella ha pasado durante su ausencia. Finalmente, el soldado acepta el cambio en su madre y se ofrece a ayudarla...

El cuento explora las características destructivas de la guerra que son contrarrestadas por los poderes curativos y regenerativos de la naturaleza. El relato comienza con Nick que llega en tren a Seney, Míchigan, para descubrir que la localidad había sido devastada por un incendio, dejando "nada más que los raíles y tierra calcinada".

William Campbell mantenía una carrera de persecución con un espectáculo de variedades desde Pittsburgh. En una carrera de persecución, en las carreras de bicicletas, los corredores salen a intervalos iguales uno tras otro. Corren muy deprisa porque generalmente la carrera se limita a una distancia breve, y si pierden velocidad otro corredor que vaya detrás y mantenga el ritmo acabará cogiéndolos. En cuanto un corredor es adelantado queda fuera de la carrera y debe bajarse de la bicicleta y salir de la pista.

En las afueras de los pueblos había campos de viñedos, eran de color pardo y las viñas toscas y gruesas. Las casas giran blancas y, en las calles, los hombres, con ropas de fiesta, jugaban a los bolos. Los perales habían sido pulverizados y las paredes de las casas estaban manchadas con el metálico azul verdoso del vapor de los pulverizadores. Había pequeños claros alrededor de las aldeas, donde crecían las viñas, y luego los bosques.

Den gamle och havet handlar om en gammal fiskares heroiska kamp med att fånga en jättestor svärdfisk och hur han sedan försvarar sin fångst mot de giriga hajarna. En saga om fiskaren och havet, en mytisk berättelse om människans villkor. Om människan, “som kan tillintetgöras, men inte...

This 1923 In Our Time collection consists of 18 vignettes. Five center on World War I (Chapters 1, 4, 5, 7, 8), and six on bullfighting (Chapters 2 and 12 to 16); the others center around news stories. Chapter 10 is the longest; it details a soldier's affair with a Red Cross nurse, and is based on Hemingway's relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky. The piece about a robbery and murder in Kansas City originated in a newspaper story Hemingway covered as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star; it is followed by the story of the public hanging of a Chicago mobster.

Have you ever wondered why the most powerful stories of humanity are often forged in the fires of conflict? Three Timeless Classics of Military Conflict and the Human Spirit brings together three defining works of war literature, offering a profound exploration of courage, loss, and the resilience of the human soul.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the cold autumn of wartime Milan, a wounded young American reports each afternoon to a hospital where gleaming machines promise to mend what the front has broken. Among the maimed officers sharing his therapy is a proud Italian major – once a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Manuel García, an aging bullfighter freshly out of the hospital after a brutal goring, refuses to accept that his time is over. Against the advice of everyone around him – a skeptical promoter, a weary picador friend, a contemptuous critic – he...

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics “The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest...