High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jeal…
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A…
Jacob (Jake) Barnes, seorang wartawan yang terluka pada Perang Dunia I, berasal dari Kansas dan sedang berada di Paris. Di sana ia bertemu dengan Lady Brett Ashley, wanita yang dikenal suka bersenang-senang dan mempermainkan banyak pria, dan jatuh cinta dengannya. Brett pun membalas cinta Jake. The Sun Also Rises, terbit pertama kali pada tahun 1926. Penulis biografi Heminggway, Jeffrey Mey…
Henry adalah seorang prajurit yang patuh pada tugas. Di mana dia dibutuhkan, di sana dia ada untuk memberikan pengobatan. Meskipun dia seorang pemberani, dia paling tidak suka berbicara mengenai konsep kepahlawanan atau keberanian. Setelah sekian lama di medan perang, dia bertemu dengan Catherine Barkley, seorang asisten suster dari Inggris yang cantik jelita. Catherine, yang baru kehilanga…
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal—a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of pe…