It's Hemingway...that's really all that needs to be said for many.
If you haven't read Hemingway as an adult, I urge you to do so. (Meaning if your only Hemingway experience was reading in school for book reports and the like, ug...try again as an adult reading for pleasure.) Maybe he was a drunk womanizer, maybe he was a scared mentally ill writer, likely he was all of the above...whatever the case, the man could tell a story.

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A Book of the Month Club dividend hardcover. Selection of Hemingway's works by Charles Poore includes:
2 complete novels:
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Torrents of Spring.
Selections from 5 novels:
- from A Farewell to Arms
- from To Have and Have Not
- from For Whom the Bell Tolls
- from Across the River and into the Trees
- from the Old Man and the Sea
Selections from two non-fiction works:
- from Death in the Afternoon (the bullfight)
- from Green Hills of Africa
and also 11 short stories.
A good introduction to Hemingway, but I would prefer to have the complete novels and experience the writing as the author intended, fully in context. Also the 2" hardcover format is too heavy and awkward to read for long periods.

I'd give it 2 stars for the incomplete excerpts, 4 stars for the quality of literature, so will compromise on a 3 rating. ( )

Book Description: New York Scribners 1953. First Edition. no dj.

A very scarce first edition of this collection.