The Hemingway Stories, Ernest Hemingway
The Hemingway Stories, Ernest Hemingway
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The Hemingway Stories
As featured in the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach, John Bedford Lloyd, Tobias Wolff

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

A new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—introduced by award-winning author Tobias Wolff.

Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway—who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture—interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts from his work.

The Hemingway Stories features Hemingway’s most significant short stories in chronological order, so viewers of the film as well as fans old and new can follow the trajectory of his impressive life and career. Hemingway’s beloved classics, such as “The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” “Up in Michigan,” “Indian Camp,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” are accompanied by fresh insights from renowned writers around the world—Mario Vargas Llosa, Edna O’Brien, Abraham Verghese, Tim O’Brien, and Mary Karr. Tobias Wolff's introduction adds a new perspective to Hemingway’s work, and Wolff has selected additional stories that demonstrate Hemingway’s talent and range.

The power of Ernest Hemingway’s revolutionary style is perhaps most striking in his short stories, and here listeners can encounter the tales that created the legend: stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time. Featuring the voices of Mary Karr, Edna O’Brien, Michael Katakis, and other authors whose insights are heard in the PBS documentary, this audio collection is a perfect introduction for a new generation of Hemingway listeners and a vital volume for any fan.

About Ernest Hemingway

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. 

About Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach a star of stage, film, and television, won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Nomination for his acclaimed portrayal of Hemingway in the definitive television epic. His films include American History X, Escape from LA, Keep Your Distance, and Birds of Passage. Other television features include Prison Break, and Titus. Mr. Keach read all three volumes of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway for Simon & Schuster Audio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ on April 07, 2021

Overall, I was not keen on these stories. 😟 I feel terrible saying that, knowing that this is Ernest Hemingway doing the writing and that Ken Burns is airing a documentary on him on PBS now, and that this book was put out to accompany the documentary. 😟 Perhaps I was a not a huge liker of these stori......more

Goodreads review by Dan on March 06, 2021

This is a repackaging of some of Hemingway's best short stories, from a handful of semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories to his masterpiece, The Snows of Kilimanjaro. This release is tied in with the upcoming Ken Burns/Lynn Novick three-part series on Hemingway. As a youth I was averse to anything......more

Goodreads review by Caro on December 03, 2022

This is a collection of some of Ernest Hemingway's short stories. There were a couple of them that I enjoyed (The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories and The Snows of Kilimanjaro), and others, not so much. Overall, I'm glad I picked up this book.......more