Ernest Hemingway: The Writer in Context

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1984. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/Very Good. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. DJ is VG. . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Introduction by James Nagel -- 1.) Publishing Hemingway by Charles Scribner, Jr. -- 2.) Islands in the stream: a son remembers by Patrick Hemingway -- 3.) Reflections on Ernest Hemingway by Tom Stoppard -- 4.) The making of Death in the afternoon by Robert W. Lewis -- 5.) The tenth Indian and The thing left out by Paul Smith -- 6.) Grace under pressure: Hemingway and the summer of 1920 by Max Westbrook -- 7.) A farewell to arms: pseudo autobiography and personal metaphor by Millicent Bell -- 8.) Women and the loss of Eden in Hemingway's mythology by Carol H. Smith -- 9.) Exchange between rivals: Faulkner's influence on The old man and the sea by Peter L. Hays -- 10.) Ernest and Henry: Hemingway's lover's quarrel with James by Adeline R. Tintner -- 11.) Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- 12.) Invention from knowledge: the Hemingway-Cowley correspondence by James D. Brasch -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . Our appreciation of Ernest Hemingway's life and art is enhanced by this new collection of twelve essays. There is much fresh information here: several of the pieces are based on previously unpublished manuscripts and letters from the Kennedy Library and various private collections, while others offer intimate impressions of the author by key literary figures who were involved with him personally and professionally. For all students and scholars of twentieth century American literature, this lively and valuable collection of original material will be essential reading. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.