Ernest Hemingway
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1954
Language
English
Description
A roman à 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 honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called "Lost" the spirit of its age, and marked...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1952.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1940
Language
English
Description
A young American goes on a dangerous mission against Franco troops during the Spanish Civil War, with a Spanish girl as companion through the several eventful days. Background for the novel was obtained by the author as a contemporary war correspondent.