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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Content is Great; Formatting is the Issue,
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This review is from: The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition (Paperback)
The content is excellent. Really, it's a wonderful collection of stories to have. The formatting, however, is quite poor. I would guess that the font size is no larger than 8 or 9. It is also single spaced. I have good vision, but long periods of time reading this book strain my eyes. It's just not as pleasurable as it should be, which is a shame. Unfortunately, it appears that Scribner have the rights to all of Hemingway's works. From my experience, their quality standards are not high.Review for ISBN: 0684843323
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must read featuring Hem's finest work,
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This review is from: The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition (Paperback)
Hemingway's greatest format was always the short story. With the exception (at least in my mind) of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms and For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Old Man And the Sea, although great is overrated at the same time), the tension and economy of line required of the short story form became muddled as Hem tackled the novel.Although this collection is not complete- missing here are two of my favorite Nick Adams stories- it definately contains Hemingway's finest work. My personal favorite, amoung many many choices included here is both parts of "Big Two Hearted River". Although I am not a fly fisherman, I am a human being and Nick's sense of loss and reflection as it becomes manifested in the wilderness resounds beautifully. Hemingway is often Thoreau with out the self consciousness. In re-reading these stories it continued to amaze me how utterly accessible and entertaining Hemingway's short stories remain to this day and how utterly dry, academic and pretentious all the "scholarship" has tried to make him in the unsufferable Lit classes I have often endured. Hemingway is a great story teller who relates simple narratives that sensually create a spiritual experience. His line of action is clear and devoid of any digression. His avoidance of psycho-babble (thank God he didn't live long enough to experience the 1970's!) and his desire to place things grounded in the reality of doing (actors can learn volumes from reading Hemingway) makes him truly timeless. There are many great writers who write as if they were talking directly to the audience in a barroom or fireside chat. What I find interesting about Hemingway is a strange void of "talkiness". I never get the sense that he could easily be telling me this story as a dramatic monolouge. His style often manages to transcend spoken language and commune directly with the readers's experience through the written word. In that sense, he is a true author using the written word as a full tool. I discovered this while trying to adapt some of his short stories into a dramatic monolouge/performance pieces. Hemingway doesn't work as well as Faulkner, Steinbeck, Twain, Dylan Thomas or even Ken Kesey. There isn't an oral tradition stored up waiting to be unlocked in Hemingway's work. They are short stories not tall tales (deconstructionist/feminist/new age/PC/Multi-culti critics leave that last claim alone!) Maybe that is why Hemingway hasn't really ever been successfully translated to the screen. At any rate, these collected stories are not meant to be seen or heard, they are must reads. Enjoy and re-discover.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A true gem,
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This review is from: The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition (Paperback)
A must for any fan of short prose fiction. At times sparse, at times sprawling, Hemingway was one of the best all-time writers. He could convey such deep emotions without the use of many adjectives or adverbs. It didn't matter to him. His at times laconic style spoke more in ten words than most writers could say in 100.A MUST!
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