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"La fine di qualcosa" è uno dei racconti più belli di sempre. Hemingway raggiunge una misura espressiva perfetta.
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The First Forty-Nine Stories
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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 I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.'
A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'Fifty Grand', and 'The Light of the World', and the Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing' and Men Without Women collections.
A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'Fifty Grand', and 'The Light of the World', and the Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing' and Men Without Women collections.
467 pages, Paperback
First published October 14,1938
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467 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 2004 by Arrow Books Ltd
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9780099339212
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0099339218
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English
About the author
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, in mid-1961, he died of suicide.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, in mid-1961, he died of suicide.
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**4.5 stars**
"Ah. madame, it is years since I added the wow to the end of a story."
(Ernest Hemingway, Death in The Afternoon)
I remember reading the phrase: "A world of experience", when I was planning to buy this book. And now, I guess I totally agree with it. And as this was my first Hemingway read at a time when I didn't even bother to know his 'iceberg theory' and all, I thought (simply) that I had bought a retold version of the book, lucid as his writing is. What is the problem of those pseudo-intellectual critics with his writing, I don't know. I don't care to know.
Talking in big words as a contrary to the author himself, His stories can be better thought as surveys of the utter disaster which had brought humanity to ruin and laid the foundations for a period of unmitigated spiritual decay which became the symptoms of the ills of our times.
On a personal note, the best bit of Hemingway is that whenever I struggle to finish one of his tragic stories, I visualize him standing in front of me, pointing his shot gun and saying: "Look up you son of a weakling. Don't you dare leave my story when you are only halfway through. For I don't think you can turn away from it all, least of all in your real life. For that's the f**king reality!"
(God knows, I would have been personally quite intimidated by him had I known him in person).
You don't expect miracles in Hemingway's stories. And that's the reason why his stories are miraculous. There are heart-warming stories like 'A Day's Wait', whereas there are heart-wrenching stories like 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'. Practically I bought the book for the latter, and it's probably one of the best short-yet-not-too-short stories I have, or will ever come across. In general the characters of the stories are the individuals who have resigned themselves from the general community because of emotional and spiritual disillusionments. And better of the stories, like 'Cat in the Rain', 'Out of Season' usually follow a drifting purposeless course. And the attention is mostly, in general concentrated on the Man in a state of alienation.
I didn't rate it five, only because I didn't get all of his stories entirely. Particularly 'Up in Michigan'. I didn't get the hang of it. Probably that's entirely my fault. Once I get them all, it will be 5. I rarely came across a collection with hardly any flaws.
"There is much more behind Hemingway's form than people know."—James Joyce
"Ah. madame, it is years since I added the wow to the end of a story."
(Ernest Hemingway, Death in The Afternoon)
I remember reading the phrase: "A world of experience", when I was planning to buy this book. And now, I guess I totally agree with it. And as this was my first Hemingway read at a time when I didn't even bother to know his 'iceberg theory' and all, I thought (simply) that I had bought a retold version of the book, lucid as his writing is. What is the problem of those pseudo-intellectual critics with his writing, I don't know. I don't care to know.
Talking in big words as a contrary to the author himself, His stories can be better thought as surveys of the utter disaster which had brought humanity to ruin and laid the foundations for a period of unmitigated spiritual decay which became the symptoms of the ills of our times.
On a personal note, the best bit of Hemingway is that whenever I struggle to finish one of his tragic stories, I visualize him standing in front of me, pointing his shot gun and saying: "Look up you son of a weakling. Don't you dare leave my story when you are only halfway through. For I don't think you can turn away from it all, least of all in your real life. For that's the f**king reality!"
(God knows, I would have been personally quite intimidated by him had I known him in person).
You don't expect miracles in Hemingway's stories. And that's the reason why his stories are miraculous. There are heart-warming stories like 'A Day's Wait', whereas there are heart-wrenching stories like 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'. Practically I bought the book for the latter, and it's probably one of the best short-yet-not-too-short stories I have, or will ever come across. In general the characters of the stories are the individuals who have resigned themselves from the general community because of emotional and spiritual disillusionments. And better of the stories, like 'Cat in the Rain', 'Out of Season' usually follow a drifting purposeless course. And the attention is mostly, in general concentrated on the Man in a state of alienation.
I didn't rate it five, only because I didn't get all of his stories entirely. Particularly 'Up in Michigan'. I didn't get the hang of it. Probably that's entirely my fault. Once I get them all, it will be 5. I rarely came across a collection with hardly any flaws.
"There is much more behind Hemingway's form than people know."—James Joyce
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Excellent as ever.
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Visited his home in Key West, and decided to read some of his work. I found it very tough to get through and sometimes hard to follow the story line. I know he is a lauded author, but just not my preference.
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Los cuentos regulares son buenos y los cuentos buenos son obras maestras. Un grande.
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Czuć że to książka złożona z kilku zbiorów opowiadań. Im dalej tym w zasadzie są gorsze opowiadania. Są w tym zbiorze opowiadania średnie, są opowiadania w porządku, są takie które dłużą się i są zwyczajnie nudne, są i takie które są wybitne. Tych ostatnich jest kilka, ale jedno zwłaszcza mi zapadło w pamięć - „Niepokonany”, opowiadanie o trzeciorzędnym torreadorze który jeszcze raz próbuje wyjść na arenę, jeszcze raz spróbować przebić się do serc publiczności, uprzednio wyprosić profesjonalnego pikadora o asystę i wybłagując organizatora walk o przyjęcie. Wszystko w cieniu brata, uważanego za rodzącą się gwiazdę areny zabity przez byka którego wypchana głowa spogląda ze ściany.
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Libro con todos los relatos de uno de los grandes maestros. Ha sido un gusto, y un aprendizaje enorme, leer todos y cada uno de ellos. Mis preferidos, y no en orden de preferencia, son los cuatro siguientes: La breve vida feliz de Francis Macomber; Colinas como elefantes blancos; Los asesinos; Padres e hijos.
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•The Sea Change
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