Hemingway was 20-24 yrs old when he wrote these dispatches for the Toronto newspapers. He already had journalism experience in Kansas City and war experience in Italy. He had experienced his first broken heart. The work is fresh and clean and much of it could be printed in this morning's newspaper and it would be considered good. He covered the day-to-day and also peace conferences in Europe. He later said some of this is "juvenilia" and should not be included in his life's work. The writing is very good even at this young age.

This collection of letters serves as the closest thing to a Hemingway autobiography we have. It is certainly must reading for the student or researcher, and I would highly recommend it for even the casual Hemingway fan.

Hemingway often wrote letters to either warm up for a day of writing or cool off afterward, and in these letters you see him at his unguarded, intellectual, humorous best. The style of his letter writing is often much freer than the tightly crafted prose style of his fiction...it's almost like watching a classical musician break into some improvisational jazz.

A great book to just dip into wherever you want, and this new edition is long overdue.

The Old Man and The Sea is a wonderful novel that opens our eyes to nature. The underlying theme of this book is that man and nature are equal, and should be treated as an equal. This novel is about an old fisherman who struggles with a gigantic fish; not to be sucessful, but for pride. He clearly represents a Hemingway Hero in all senses of the word, including that he is flawed. Ernest Hemingway has once again made his point through wonderful literature and I would congratulate him on this work of art should he be living

This book was one of the most important references my wife and I used on our passage from Seattle to Skagway. Not only did it give us ideas on where to go the next day, but where to hide in case the weather didn't cooperate. A must have reference for every boater cruising the Inside Passage.

Boaters around here know the Douglasses as the king and queen of cruisers, and their handbooks are our bibles. They've been everywhere, done everything, and they take *really* good notes. This guide is one result; it includes details on every anchorage, waypoint and description in the area. If you plan to spend any time in Pacific Northwest waters, this book is a must have.

I have cruised several seasons to Southeast. This is the best guide.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway depicts the adventures of Frederic Henry in WWI. An American fighting on the Italian front, he serves in the Army Corps an inspector and ambulance driver. Through his best friend Rinaldi, a doctor also for the Italians, he meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley. After being wounded on the front line by a trench mortar shell, he is sent to a hospital to recover. There, Catherine cares for him and they fall in love. After he recovers and Miss Barkley becomes pregnant with his child, they both decide to desert their stations and escape from the war. By a small boat, they row themselves to Switzerland, and settle down in the mountains.
I absolutely love this book! It's packed with real war drama, and an awesome love plot. As the story unravels, you really get caught up in the action; it went slow in the beginning, but it soon picked up. I didn't know the Hemingway was so basic and interesting, I thought it would be a complex read with difficult language, but I finished the book satisfied.
I recommend this to anyone mature enough for classic literature. You won't regret it.

A brilliant guide to Ernest Hemingway's haunts in Paris. Informative, interesting, and easy to use it sets up easy walking tours to all Hemingway sights in Paris and gives informative/in-depth information about all of them....both from a Hemingwayesque perspective and from the perspective of the building's modern uuse. A Bible for all Hemingway aficionados traveling in Europe.

I had the pleasure of taking two courses on Hemingway from Professor Gajdusek. He brought energy and vitality to the study of Hemingway's works, and it was all we could do to keep him from bouncing off the walls with enthusiasm for his subject. Gadjdusekk brings that same energy to this little monogram. He thoroughly explores Joyce's influence on Hemingway's prose and literary techniques. Hemingway scholars have written in detail about the influences on Hemingway, namely Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and biographers have detailed how those relationships eventually soured as Hemingway in one way or another turned on his former mentors. Gajdusek points out that the relationship with Joyce was an exception, that Hemingway retained a lifelong admiration for Joyce. Gajdusek gives us a close comparison of the two writer's prose styles and traces Joyce's influence on Hemingway's choice of imagery and words, and he argues that it was Joyce, more than any other writer, who taught Hemingway to write as Santiago fished, casting his lines deeper than others. This is a well-crafted monogram, carefully written and argued, and Gajdusek's love for Hemingway's works and the enthusiasm he has for his subject comes through in every sentence.

This book stuns. It is stunningly crafted and stunningly written, containing some of Locklin's best work, to be cherished by Locklin lovers and Hemingway lovers. Locklin will take you to Hemingway's Cuba as no one has done before, and you will be with Locklin all the way via his magnetic poetry. The book itself is old-fashioned, a piece of craft rather than a bunch of paper and glue. I recommend doing as I did--buy 2 copies, one to read all night (I did), and one to keep for your grandchildren, so that they can sell it to pay for their college tuition.