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(0)Ernest Hemingway
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A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called "Lost" the spirit of its age, and marked...
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English
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Published in 1925, Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories focuses on alienation, grief, separation, and loss. Nick, his semi-autobiographical character, appears in multiple stories throughout and is used to explore themes of male comradery, early love, and marriage problems. Known as Hemingway's most experimental book, In Our Time is considered one of Hemingway's early masterpieces.
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Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.
Con un lenguaje de gran fuerza y sencillez, El viejo y el mar narra la historia de un viejo pescador cubano a quien la suerte parece haber abandonado, y del desafío mayor al que se enfrente: la batalla despiadada y sin tregua con un pez gigantesco en las aguas del golfo.
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Scribner
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1996.
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English
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A young American goes on a dangerous mission against Franco troops during the Spanish Civil War, with a Spanish girl as companion through the several eventful days. Background for the novel was obtained by the author as a contemporary war correspondent.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of...