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"El regreso de un soldado" de Ernest Hemingway es una historia sobre el regreso a casa de un soldado herido de la Primera Guerra Mundial y su reintegración en una comunidad rural. Cuando regresa, descubre que todas sus relaciones han cambiado, especialmente su relación con su madre, con la que antes tenía una buena relación. La madre se muestra ahora reticente, como si deseara romper el vínculo entre ellos, porque siente que él no podrá entender las experiencias que ella ha pasado durante su ausencia. Finalmente, el soldado acepta el cambio en su madre y se ofrece a ayudarla...

La historia comienza con una escena familiar: una pareja discute en un bar. El hombre, exaltado y llevado al borde del impulso violento, reclama a su pareja el hecho de haberle sido infiel. La mujer, entre frases cínicas y con una calma impresionante, busca remediar el corazón herido de su compañero mediante promesas futuras que llevan un aire vacío que podemos reconocer como el intento fallido de quien no quiere ser culpable.

El dueño del bar ha escuchado todo y mira desde lejos a la pareja que pudiera representar a todas aquellas historias amorosas que han terminado antes en su local...

Nick Adams y su padre que viven juntos en un rancho remoto en Michigan, en los Estados Unidos. Un día, se preparan para una tormenta de tres días de duración. La tormenta amenaza con destruir la casa y a los personajes, pero el padre y el hijo trabajan juntos para prepararse para la tormenta. A medida que pasa el tiempo, los dos crecen más cercanos y comparten un vínculo emocional profundo. Cuando la tormenta pasa, se comunican más profundamente que antes. Ahora pueden soportar las duras pruebas de la vida y se sentirán apoyados por el otro, incluso cuando estén lejos el uno del otro...

William Campbell mantenía una carrera de persecución con un espectáculo de variedades desde Pittsburgh. En una carrera de persecución, en las carreras de bicicletas, los corredores salen a intervalos iguales uno tras otro. Corren muy deprisa porque generalmente la carrera se limita a una distancia breve, y si pierden velocidad otro corredor que vaya detrás y mantenga el ritmo acabará cogiéndolos. En cuanto un corredor es adelantado queda fuera de la carrera y debe bajarse de la bicicleta y salir de la pista.

En las afueras de los pueblos había campos de viñedos, eran de color pardo y las viñas toscas y gruesas. Las casas giran blancas y, en las calles, los hombres, con ropas de fiesta, jugaban a los bolos. Los perales habían sido pulverizados y las paredes de las casas estaban manchadas con el metálico azul verdoso del vapor de los pulverizadores. Había pequeños claros alrededor de las aldeas, donde crecían las viñas, y luego los bosques.

En "50 de los grandes", el protagonista es un boxeador llamado Jack "El Matador" Thompson, que ha llegado al final de su carrera. Aunque ha sido un campeón en su juventud, ahora está en declive y enfrenta desafíos físicos y mentales. Jack se enfrenta a la dura realidad de la vida después del boxeo, mientras reflexiona sobre su pasado y su identidad como boxeador. A través de flashbacks, se exploran las relaciones de Jack con su entrenador, su mánager y su ex esposa.

Jig no para de observar el horizonte y mencionar que las montañas tienen un aspecto similar al de elefantes blancos, “La muchacha miraba la hilera de colinas. Eran blancas bajo el sol y el campo estaba pardo y seco. -Parecen elefantes blancos -dijo.”

Originally privately published in Paris, Three Stories and Ten Poems holds an interesting history. The three stories, “Up in Michigan", “Out of Season”, and “My Old Man”, were first seen in this collection, but “Up in Michigan” was banned and not considered publishable in America until 1938 because of its blatant sexuality. In addition, this original publication of the three stories is all that remains of Hemingway’s early works after his suitcase containing the originals was stolen.

Here is Hemingway: the adventurer, the reporter, the man! More intimately than all his fiction, Hemingway the reporter reveals Hemingway the man, driving an ambulance through a bullet-barrage or leading guerrilla forces into Paris, always in the thick of the action. Here are his most sensational dispatches, the behind-the-scenes stories that became For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises.

Set in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is becoming a physical hardship to him.

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick."

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the Americam Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style: from the plain bald language of the first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude.

This definitive audio collection, read by Stacy Keach, traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style - from the plain bald language of his first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the 20th century.

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style - from the plain bold language of this first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude.

A sensational best seller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman.

In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp", "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife", "The Three Day Blow", and "The Battler", and introduces listeners to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart.

"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer was, of course, Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

When Ernest Hemingway died in 1961 he had nearly completed A Moveable Feast, which eventually was published posthumously in 1964 and edited by his widow Mary Hemingway. This new special edition of Hemingway's classic memoir of his early years in Paris in the 1920's presents the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published at the time of his death.

His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife, Pauline, journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip.

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.