The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Couverture souple

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099460920 ISBN 13 : 9780099460923

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2004

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Quatrième de couverture :

'An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects' Daily Telegraph

Men and women of passion and action live, fight, question, love and die. From a 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, this collection of stories depicts characters and events of intense power and realism.

See also: Green Hills of Africa

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099460920
• ISBN 13: 9780099460923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230