The Nick Adams Stories, Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories, Ernest Hemingway
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The Nick Adams Stories

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2007


Synopsis

From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete volume of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent—a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

The complete collection of Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams two dozen stories are gathered here in one volume, grouped together according to the major time periods in the protagonist's life. Based on Hemingway's own experiences as a boy and as a member of the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The collection follows Nick's life as a child to parent, along with soldier, veteran, and writer and feature some of Hemingway's earliest work such as "Indian Camp" and some of his best-known short stories, including "Big Two-Hearted River." Perfect for longtime Hemingway fans and as an introduction to one of America's most famous writers.

About 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. 

About Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach a star of stage, film, and television, won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Nomination for his acclaimed portrayal of Hemingway in the definitive television epic. His films include American History X, Escape from LA, Keep Your Distance, and Birds of Passage. Other television features include Prison Break, and Titus. Mr. Keach read all three volumes of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway for Simon & Schuster Audio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on August 07, 2018

I struggle with Hemingway's novels. I have only read two of them, and have started others only to get sidetracked/restless while reading them. I think maybe his style is better suited to short stories. I love the Nick Adams stories, this collection has them all. There is the classic required reading......more

Goodreads review by Erik on May 07, 2011

At Grinnell College there was a self-proclaimed Diggers collective which, among things like free meals, parties, parades and other "happenings", ran a "free store" off the lounge of my south campus dorm, Loose Hall (renamed Augustus Stanley Owsley Hall by its residents). Basically, it was an disused......more