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Green Hills of Africa written by Ernest Hemingway performed by Josh Lucas on CD (Unabridged)

Green Hills of Africa written by Ernest Hemingway performed by Josh Lucas on CD (Unabridged)£19.99  -  £29.99

His second major venture into non fiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africais Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in and fascination...

For Whom the Bell Tolls written by Ernest Hemingway performed by Campbell Scott on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9780857204547
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  1000 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Ernest Heminsgway
Performer 1:  Campbell Scott
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In 1937, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love...

for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise.

"If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

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