Description
For Whom The Bell Tolls Whom the Bell Tolls reveals the story of Robert Jordan, a young American dynamiter, who volunteered to fight in the International Brigades against Franco. Waiting for the right time to blow up an important bridge while living amid a guerilla unit in the pine forests of Spanish Sierra he meets beautiful Maria and falls in love with her. But he will have to wait to be permanently with her until the end of his mission. Hemingway had a penchant for war stories and a natural talent to turn them into masterpieces. He wrote many enduring tales in the genre. In For Whom the Bell Tolls he outshined even his earlier work. Whatever there is in a war is palpable in it, but with a touch of Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway s first novel, originally appeared in 1926 and, since then, has become a classic of modern American fiction. Set in post-World War I Europe, the novel is a testimony to the spirit of the Lost Generation, its anxieties and its disenchantment. It follows the journey of Jake Barnes, a war veteran, and Lady Brett Ashley, an upper-class, promiscuous divorcee, from the parties of Paris, a civilization spiritually bankrupted and torn apart by the Great War, to the brutal bullfight rings in Pamplona, a place where faith has yet to lose its value. A masterly exploration of love, death, and the fragility of masculinity after a major war, this is the novel that helped establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers in the world. A Farewell To Arms [ Considered as the best American novel of the Great War A Farewell to Arms is the story of an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army who falls for an English nurse amid the horrors of war. Their love will endure but the war will change their lives forever. A fitting mosaic of all acts of war and love A Farewell to Arms was the first great novel by great Hemingway. We see early glimpses of his characteristic prose in it which later developed into an unparalleled art and led to his winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. A Farewell to Arms is one of the most popular novel of the modern age and has been adapted for the theatre and film on many occasions. The Old Man And The Sea The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an aged fisherman, who has been unable to catch any fish lately. Called Santiago El Campeon in his heyday, he is now considered "salao", the worst kind of bad luck. Even his only apprentice has been advised by his parents to stay away from the old man. And then comes the day when he ventures out into the sea and fights the most unlikely battle of his life with it and all the horrors it epitomizes. The Old Man and the Sea first appeared in Life magazine in September 1952, which sold 5 million copies in first 2 days. It was published in book form in the same year and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. It is said that owing to this masterpiece of the 20th century literature Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in the USA in 1899. He led a diverse life. He chose a career in journalism in his early life, participated in both World Wars, covered the Greco-Turkish and the Spanish Civil Wars, sailed the Caribbean and lived in four continents. During his stay in Paris, he became a part of the American expatriate circle of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound. F Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford. He made good use of his multifarious life experience in his writings and penned many great novels and short stories. In 1954, he was awarded the bel Prize in Literature. t many years later, he committed suicide in 1961.
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