Ernest Hemingway
Author
Language
English
Description
"American Journalist Jake Barnes is desperately in love with the beautiful Lady Brett Ashley.he moves seductively through the seemingly glamorous milieu of American and British expats, loving, living and partying in Paris in the 1920's. They're a hedonistic generation, marked by the violence and privations of WW1, in pursuit of adventure."--
72) In Sicily
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1949]
Language
English
Description
"Vittorini's Conversations in Sicily stands as a modern classic, not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo Calvino described Conversations as "the book-Guernica." The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"More than 40 years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read, and widely written about American authors. His distinct style and profound influence are indisputable; his larger-than-life persona is still the stuff of heated debate. As well known in his lifetime as any movie star, Hemingway was a dashing international figure who challenged the notion that writers exist in an ivory tower. There were the battles, the bull fights, the...
76) After the storm
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
On the run from ruthless smugglers and the police, Arno, a world-weary scavenger, is hired as a courier for a rich tycoon. When the tycoon's luxury yacht goes down in a violent storm, Arno is forced to partner with a local crook, and the race is on to salvage the bounty.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In 1918 the young Ernest Hemingway was recuperating in a Milan hospital from shrapnel and bullet wounds received on the Italian front. There he met a nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, fell in love, and planned to be married. Their romance is captured through a diary that Agnes kept over the summer of 1918, in which she referred to Hemingway as "the kid." Their relationship grew, and in September the head nurse found one of Agnes's hairpins under Hemingway's...
