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Ernest Hemingway

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Hemingway, A Life in Pictures

Hemingway, A Life in Pictures

by Mariel Hemingway | Boris Vejdovsky

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 208 PAGES

In this first-ever tribute to her grandfather, Mariel selects 350 photographs from the family album, tracing the life of the author from a childhood filled with harbingers of the future -- the five-year-old fishing, the 16-year-old writing, the wounded soldier, the young groom -- and an adult life of success and failure: journalist, serial husband, prize-winning author, big-game hunter, inveterate drinker and idealized hero. (PHT37, $40.00)

Green Hills of Africa

Green Hills of Africa

by Ernest Hemingway

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1935
  • PAPER
  • 295 PAGES

Hemingway paints the true story of his ramblings on safari in this classic, exquisitely written tale of hunting around Lake Manyara, which includes some of the best writing on the land itself and original pencil drawings. (EAF25, $16.00)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 471 PAGES

Hemingway's great novel about the Spanish Civil War is a love story set during the four-day fight of anti-fascist units in the mountains. (SPN19, $16.00)

Travels with Myself and Another, A Memoir

Travels with Myself and Another, A Memoir

by Martha Gellhorn

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

The other, of course, being Ernest Hemingway, Gelhorn's husband at the time. A marvelous, incisive writer who covered every important conflict from from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua, Martha Gelhorn writes of her time in East Africa with Heminway, a visit with Chiang Kai-Shek, Soviet Moscow and other unforgettable journeys in this collection, first published in 1979. The two are played by X and Y in the HBO series. Permieres April Z. (TVL25, $15.95)

Hemingway in Africa, The Last Safari

Hemingway in Africa, The Last Safari

by Christopher Ondaatje

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 240 PAGES

In this illustrated account of travels in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, Christopher Ondaatje conjures Hemingway and his love for Africa. (AFR139, $37.50)

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway's Boat

by Paul Hendrickson

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 531 PAGES

Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961, from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide, Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's life through the story of his beloved boat, Pilar. On display at Hemingway's Finca La Vigia in San Francisco de Paula, east of Havana, it is easy to see how this sleek craft attracted Hemingway, the setting for so much of what the writer loved and the leitmotif of Hendrickson's supple elegy. (USA454, $30.00)

Hemingway, The 1930s Through the Final Years

Hemingway, The 1930s Through the Final Years

by Michael S. Reynolds

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 800 PAGES

The omnibus edition of the last two of Reynolds's masterful trilogy -- Hemingway: The 1930s and Hemingway: The Final Years -- published to concide with upcoming film Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen. (GEN996, $24.95)

 
Walks in Hemingway's Paris, A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler

Walks in Hemingway's Paris, A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler


by Noel Riley Fitch

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 1992
  • PAPER

A guided tour of Paris led by none other than Ernest Hemingway. (FRN106, $15.99)

Hemingway, The Paris Years

Hemingway, The Paris Years


by Michael Reynolds

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 402 PAGES

Volume two in the massive Hemingway biography, Reynolds documents the author's time Paris during the 1920s in this probing study of the artist and inspired portrait of the city. (FRN100, $21.95)

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties


by Noel Riley Fitch

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 447 PAGES

A vivid portrait of life among intellectual expatriates in post-WWI Paris. (FRN92, $21.95)

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 332 PAGES

Set in snowy Switzerland and the rainy Italian Lake Country during World War I, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the romance between a British nurse and an American ambulance driver. (ITL384, $16.00)

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

This restored edition of Hemingway's exuberant, irreverent portrait of life in Paris after World War I, edited by his grandson Sean, puts the 19 chapters originally selected by Hemingway in the order he presented. (FRN916, $15.00)

Adios Hemingway

Adios Hemingway


by Leonardo Padura Fuentes | John King

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 229 PAGES

Following Padura's popular four-book series, Cuban detective Mario Conde returns in this literary novella to investigate a murder that occurred on Ernest Hemingway's estate over forty years before. (CBA100, $13.00)

Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

Hemingway's ode to the sport of bullfighting. (SPN225, $17.00)

Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

Hemingway's story of artist and adventurer Thomas Hudson in the Caribbean. (CRB71, $17.00)

On Paris

On Paris


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 80 PAGES

These wry columns, written for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, show Hemingway at his most informal, making great fun of literary Paris, the French and his own Bohemian circle. (FRN930, $15.95)

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

Published posthumously, Hemingway's unfinished novel is set on the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s, where the relationship between a young married couple begins to disintegrate when they both fall in love with the same woman. (FRN652, $15.00)

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 127 PAGES

Hemingway's brief story of a fisherman who after 84 days with no luck finally makes a big catch is also an affectionate portrait of life in Cuba. It won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (CBA02, $12.00)

The Paris Wife

The Paris Wife


by Paula McLain

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 320 PAGES

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. (FRN981, $25.00)

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises


by Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

Hemingway's great novel, which encapsulates the angst of the post-WWI "lost generation," is the story of unmoored American and British expats travelling from Paris to Pamplona. (SPN33, $15.00)

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