Ernest Hemingway

"I don't know who made the laws, but I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry." Harry Morgan was hard, the classic Hemingway hero. He had to be hard, rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the Depression. He ran risks, too, from stray coastguard bullets and sudden doublccrosses. But it was the only...

Influenced in equal parts by the Great Depression, and the Marxist ideology that fuelled the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (on which Hemingway is reporting at the time), it is a blunt exploration of one man's struggles with economic hardships, the circumstances into which he is forced, and the decisions he is forced to make.One of his...

Drawing on Hemingway's own experiences as a WWI ambulance driver, A Farwell to Arms paints a vivid picture of the horrors of war, juxtaposed with the struggles involved in making love work. The novel, one of the best to come out of The Great War, follows ambulance driver Frederic Henry, his experiences and travails on the Italian front, and...

Simultaneously intimate, simple, deep, and powerful, The Old Man and the Sea is a story of triumph, loss, struggle, and perseverance, set against the rich backdrop of a Cuban fishing community. The novella follows an old fisherman as he struggles to catch a gigantic marlin and turn his waning luck around. Over the course of this struggle the book...

One of the classic novels of the 20th century, it is the story of one outsider struggling to find himself and his place in the midst of war. It is the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan, an American professor and demolitions expert, is sent across enemy lines to lead a rag-tag band of Guerillas in a mission to blow up a bridge as part of a surprise...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th Century, known for books such as The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls, and this collection compiles all of his short fiction into a single e-book. Includes particularly notable stories such as ';The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and...