Byline: Ernest Hemingway
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by Scott Campbell
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About this audiobook
Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access to a range of experiences, including vivid eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway offers a glimpse into the world behind the popular fiction of one of America's greatest writers.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was good. It was very good.
Hemingway wrote “a classic is a thing that everyone talks about yet almost no one reads.”
To be a writer of the stature of Hemingway and to have written so many classics, most of them hailed as masterpieces when he was still alive, to known as America’s Greatest Living Author must have been both exhilarating and have come down on him like the kiss of death.
This book is filled with little known (at least to me) clever, witty, gritty, lively, extraordinarily well written pieces that show astonishing literary muscularity considering that they were meant as “quick buck” pieces for the newspapers and periodicals of the day (periodicals from the 1920’s through his time in Cuba).
They were (again, at least to me) a shot-in-the-arm for a renewal of interest in reading some of the author’s longer works that I have time and again tried to read through several of and have never managed to finish anything but The Old Man And The Sea (which I was forced to read in school and don’t remember) and his Collected Short Stories.
Most of the pieces could have been written yesterday...or tomorrow and in no way feel dated. They are, in fact, refreshing enigmatic, ironically humorous and energetically articulate to a super-modern degree.
Although, classed as non-fiction, their narrative style at times causes confusion in the mind’s eye with their value as art, and art in the best sense, too: as light, clean, hard, smooth, gritty and gut-wrenching as anything you could have wished to be conveyed in the medium of the written word.
Extra note: I tried again to read THE SUN ALSO RISES and sadly, only got to page 148 before giving up.
Perhaps, I will go through life never to have read, as an adult, any book other than this one and those Short Stories (like WINNER TAKE NOTHING).
So, I will read through this one twice.
The narration was excellent, masterfully suited for this material.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5By-line: Ernest Hemingway, read by Campbell Scott, was in many places mesmerizing. These are recordings of Hemingway's reporter's work--along with magazine etc. articles, written throughout his lifetime. Particularly poignant were his works while at the Toronto Star on fishing and hunting experiences, when he speaks of youthful excursions out with his father. Also, those writings near the end of his life when he'd been--along with his wife, Mary, and their airplane pilot--gone missing and for days in the newspaper headlines after being in a plane crash in Africa. This pieces of writing being both serious and humorous in proper parts--especially when staring down more than one elephant since the airplane came down in a long used elephant walk. Campbell Scott's tone in the narration just seemed so right on here, and all throughout the audio book too.