"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 of course was Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood summers, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams.
The 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.
In this arrangement Nick Adams emerges clearly as the first in a long line of Hemingway's fictional selves. Later versions, from Jake Barnes and Frederic Henry to Richard Cantwell and Thomas Hudson, were all to have behind them part of Nick's history and, correspondingly, part of Hemingway's.
Wilkie Collins
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Classics Detective Detective
Price : $15.49
An investigation into the disappearance of a huge and priceless gem, the Moonstone. View...
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John Galsworthy
Narrator : Fred Williams
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 43 hours
Categories : Classics
Price : $79.95 $69.95
John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during... View...
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Aesop
Narrator : Mary Woods
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Classics
Price : $25.95 $12.95
Aesop's Fables is a collection of tales from the sixth century B.C. in which the animal characters talk and act like humans. Each story has moral lessons as true today as ever. View...
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Emily Brontë
Narrator : Martin Shaw
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 3 hours 4 minutes
Categories : Classics Classic
Price : $12.75
The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The story has been interpreted as an historical romance... View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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