The Short Stories Volume III, Ernest Hemingway
The Short Stories Volume III, Ernest Hemingway
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The Short Stories Volume III

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Unabridged: 4 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003


Synopsis

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. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.
The Short Stories Volume III features Stacy Keach reading such favorites as: An Alpine Idyll, A Pursuit Race, Today is Friday, Banal Story, Now I Lay Me, After the Storm, A Clean, Well-lighted Place, The Light of the World, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, The Sea Change, A Way You'll Never Be, The Mother of the Queen, One Reader Writes, Homage to Switzerland, A Day's Wait, A Natural History of the Dead, Wine of Wyoming, The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio, and Fathers and Sons.

ALL STORIES ARE UNABRIDGED

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 R. on January 22, 2023

Like most short story collections, there's a fair bit of overlap in here. If you've read the other two collections of Hemingway in this series, there are several stories you will have already heard, and one that you may have heard twice if my memory is correct. It's a bit weird that that's the way i......more

Goodreads review by James on December 07, 2023

This is a great collection of short stories by Hemingway. It is well read and entertaining. The stories are not related, but they share the voice of Ernest Hemingway.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 08, 2020

It felt like these were just leftovers. It's still Hemingway but I found most of these stories to be pretty bland and uninteresting.......more

Goodreads review by Ibis3 on August 09, 2014

I quite enjoyed most of these stories, the last of the entire oeuvre, despite how much Hemingway is described as the quintessential masculine writer (and so, supposedly the antithesis of what a feminist would like). I do think I got a lot more out of them by listening to Stacey Keach read them than......more

Goodreads review by Brent on October 15, 2008

Ok, so in truth I gave up on this collection less than half-way through. The stories were simply not compelling. I suppose I can live with the idea that not everything Hemingway put out was literary gold. And this is the third volume of his short stories- I'm assuming the first volume contains bette......more