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Fathers And Sons (short Story)
"Fathers and Sons" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ... published 1933, in the collection '' Winner Take Nothing''. It later appeared in '' The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' and '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories''. The story is a personal narrative that follows the path of Nick Adams as he drives through his hometown with his son. Most of the story is told through memories of Nick's childhood and Father. The story chronicles the relationships between three generations of men. Important themes in "Fathers and Sons" include father–son relationships, Nick's homecoming, growing up, and role models. Plot "Fathers and Sons" is a story about Nicholas Adams driving home with his son after a hunting trip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for ''The Kansas City Star'' before enlisting in the American Red Cross, Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front (World War I), Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''Toronto Star'' and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winner Take Nothing
''Winner Take Nothing'' is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third and final collection of stories, it was published four years after ''A Farewell to Arms'' (1929), and a year after his non-fiction book about bullfighting, ''Death in the Afternoon'' (1932). Content ''Winner Take Nothing'' was published on 27 October 1933 by Scribner's with a first edition print-run of approximately 20,000 copies. The volume included the following stories: "After the Storm" The story is based on an account told to Ernest Hemingway in 1928 about the sinking off the Florida Keys, in the late summer of 1919, of the Spanish steamer, the SS Valbanera. Retrieved 1/10/2022. "After the Storm" involves a |
The Fifth Column And The First Forty-Nine Stories
''The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on October 14, 1938. It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, ''The Fifth Column'', and 49 short stories. Many of the stories included in the collection appear in other collections, including '' In Our Time'', '' Men Without Women'', '' Winner Take Nothing'' and '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro''. Contents ''The Fifth Column'' is set during the Spanish Civil War. Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic. The play was poorly received upon publication and has been overshadowed by many of the short stories in the anthology. The play was slated for production in 1938, but setbacks with the Broadway producers delayed production. In 1940, a version of the play was produced on Broadway by the Theater Guild. This production was heavily edited by Benjamin Glazer with significant revisions to the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (short Story Collection)
''The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories'' is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1961. All the stories were earlier published in ''The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' in 1938. The collection includes the following stories: *" The Snows of Kilimanjaro" *"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" *" A Day's Wait" *" The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" *" Fathers and Sons" *" In Another Country" *"The Killers" *" A Way You'll Never Be" *" Fifty Grand" *"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine. The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film '' ..." Film adaptations * ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (1952 film), a 1952 American film * ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (2011 film), a 2011 French film * ''The Killers'' (1946 film), a 1946 American film * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Adams (character)
Nicholas Adams is a fictional character, the protagonist of two dozen short stories and vignettes written in the 1920s and 1930s by American author Ernest Hemingway. Adams is partly inspired by Hemingway's own experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan at his family cottage to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The first of Hemingway's stories to feature Nick Adams was published in his 1925 collection '' In Our Time'', with Adams appearing as a young child in " Indian Camp", the collection's first story. All Nick Adams stories were later collected in a 1972 book, published after Hemingway's death, titled '' The Nick Adams Stories''. They are, for the most part, stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in ''The Nick Adams Stories'', they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's life. ''The Nick Adams Stories'' The Northern Woods * " T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories By Ernest Hemingway
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Companies * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, a former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Other uses * Short film, a cinema format, also called a short * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short (cricket), fielding positions closer to the batsman * SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects * Short vowel, a vowel sound of short perceived duration * Holly Short, a fictional character in the ''Artemis Fowl'' series See also * Short time, a situation in which a civilian employee works reduced hours, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Short Stories
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German People" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
