The Hemingway reader / selected, with a foreword and twelve brief prefaces by Charles Poore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Contributor:

Poore, Charles, 1902-1971.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 652 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953]

Contents:

from In Our Time. Big Hearted River

The Torrents of Spring

The Sun Also Rises

from A Farewell to Arms. The retreat from Caporetto (Book Three); Stresa (Chapters Thirty-five, Thirty-six, Thirty-seven)

Stories. The way you'll never be; Fifty grand; A clean well-lighted place; The light of the world; After the storm

from Death in the Afternoon. The bullfight (Chapter Seven); The last chapter

from Green Hills of Africa (Chapter One)

from To Have and Have Not. One trip across

from For Whom the Bell Tolls. Sordo's stand

Stories. The short happy life of Francis Macomber; The capital of the world; The snows of Kilimanjaro; Old man at the bridge; The fable of the good lion

from Across the River and into the Trees. Venice and the Veneto (Chapters Four, Five, Six)

from The Old Man and the Sea. The fight with the sharks.

Notes:

"This book is planned for the pleasures and rewards of reading. The selections are arranged chronologically. They were chosen mainly to give variety and balance."--Foreword.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok".

ISBN:

0684151642

OCLC:

3646163