WINNER TAKE NOTHING

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Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway's imagination. As an introduction to his work, or as an overview of the themes he developed at greater length in his novels, it is a stunningly successful collection. From on Winner Take Nothing - Ernest Hemingway od authora Ernest Hemingway a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction since the publication of ''A Farewell to Arms'' in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. ''A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'' is about an old Spanish Beggar. ''Homage to Switzerland'' concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. ''The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio'' is laid in the Winner Take Nothing z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature od neuveden naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz!