Hemingway on Hunting Hardcover - 2012

Name: Hemingway on Hunting
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Author: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9781476716435

by Ernest Hemingway

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From the publisher

Now a Scribner Classics Edition, Ernest Hemingway's seminal writings on hunting--one of his greatest passions--introduced and edited by his grandson, Sen Hemingway, with a foreword by his son, Patrick Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for hunting is reflected in his masterful works of fiction, from his famous account of an African safari in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" to passages about duck hunting in Across the River and into the Trees. For Hemingway, hunting was more than just a passion; it was a means through which to explore our humanity and man's relationship to nature. Courage, awe, respect, precision, patience--these were the virtues that Hemingway honored in the hunter, and his ability to translate these qualities into prose has produced some of the strongest accounts of hunting of all time. Hemingway on Hunting offers the full range of Hemingway's writing about the hunting life. With selections from his best-loved novels and stories, along with journalistic pieces from such magazines as Esquire and Vogue, this spectacular collection is a must-have for anyone who has ever tasted the thrill of the hunt--in person or on the page.

Details

Title Hemingway on Hunting
Author Ernest Hemingway
Binding Hardcover
Edition Reprint
Pages 296
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Scribner Book Company
Date 2012-12
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9781476716435 / 1476716439
Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
Dimensions 9.47 x 6.42 x 1.13 in (24.05 x 16.31 x 2.87 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Hunting, Hunting stories, American
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014498718
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.