Ernest Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely...
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Ernest Hemingway's first critically acclaimed novel follows Jake Barnes, terribly injured in World War I, as he discovers the solace and shell-shocked immorality of the "lost generation" in post-war Paris.
This The Sun Also Rises on A+ AUDIO study guide was written by Robert Murray, a lecturer at Princeton University and the director of the Writing Center at Rutgers College. This program is presented by Frank Dwyer, a poet, playwright,
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Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ̉clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and...