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The Hemingway Stories
- As Featured in the Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, John Bedford Lloyd, Tobias Wolff
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
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.
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- claire baker
- 25-09-22
beautiful storytelling
l enjoyed going on a journey with the narrator in to the lives of seemingly ordinary people, giving g a view of the exta ordinary nature of existence as a human being
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- Stephen Gott
- 27-07-21
The Essence Of Hemingway
I chose this collection of Hemingway short stories, because I intended to watch the connected Ken Burns series, on the authors life and work. Having listened to the book and begun to watch the series. I can now see how personal these stories must have been to Hemingway. Reflecting in a fictional way, his life in the 1920's and 1930's, but also foreshadowing his own destiny, as in the final story of this collection, " The Snows Of Killimanjaro ".
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-03-21
A good selection to accompany the Burns series
This short (7.75 hrs) collection is a good accompaniment and has short introductions for each story narrated by literary interviewees from the series. Its a good selection of his most creative and developmental period. I
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I would recommend aficienados to check out Selected Hemingway Stories"a very interesting and eclectic mix of lesser known work also available on Audible (and no duplication with this recording). Its a good way to listen but Hemingway I think is a very in your head experience where your brain has to translate the written words into your consciousness,for full effect so let these recordings be your portal to that other world...
The Hemingway Stories:
1. Intro Music
2. Introduction by Tobias Wolff
3. Up in Michigan 1923
4. Out of Season 1923
5. Indian Camp 1924
6. Cross Country Snow 1924
7. The End of Something 1925
8. The Three Day Blow 1925
9. from "In Our Time" Intro to Chapter 7
10. In Our Time - Chapter 7 1925
11. from "In Our Time - Big Two-Hearted River 1925
12. The Undefeated
13. In Another Country
14. Hills Like White Elephants
15. The Killers
16. Now I Lay Me
17. A Clean Well Lighted Place
18. A Way You'll Never Be
19. The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber
20. Under The Ridge
21. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
22. End Music
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