The Hemingway Reader

Inventory ID 658130 Hardcover Cloth 652 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Presumed Book Club First edition 1953 with W on colophon. Attractive orange buckram boards and gilt shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners, dent on top of front board. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. Tight binding with good hinges. An unclipped dust jacket is fragile and discolored with age. Dust jacket shows the usual shelf wear - tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.The Hemingway Reader, edited by Charles Poore, gathers a wide range of Ernest Hemingway's works into a single volume, offering readers a comprehensive view of his style, themes, and literary influence. The collection includes selections from his novels, short stories, and nonfiction, highlighting the precision of his prose, the intensity of his characters, and the stark clarity with which he portrayed war, love, courage, and loss. Poore's editorial choices showcase Hemingway's evolution as a writer while also providing context that underscores his lasting significance in American literature, making the book both a celebration and a testament to his enduring voice.Book contains:From In Our Time: Big Two-Hearted River and The Torrents of SpringThe Sun Also Rises (complete)From A Farewell to Arms: The Retreat from Caporetto and StresaShort stories: A Way You'll Never Be, Fifty Grand, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, The Light of the World, After the StormFrom Death in the Afternoon: The Bullfight and The Last ChapterFrom Green Hills of Africa: Chapter OneFrom To Have and Have Not: One Trip AcrossFrom For Whom the Bell Tolls: Sordo's StandShort stories: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Capital of the World, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Old Man at the Bridge, The Fable of the Good LionFrom Across the River and Into the Trees: Venice and the Veneto (selected chapters)From The Old Man and the Sea: The Fight with the SharksErnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for his spare prose style and adventurous life. He served as an ambulance driver in World War I, worked as a foreign correspondent, and became part of the "Lost Generation" writers in Paris during the 1920s. His works, including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea, earned him both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.…