Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery -- the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool...

In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds...

Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.

Plaku dhe deti, romani i shkurtër heroik i Ernest Hemingway u botua në vitin 1952 dhe fitoi ccmimin Pulitzer më 1952. Kjo është vepra e fundit madhore e autorit. Ai rrëfen betejën e një peshkatari të moshuar në një betejë epike për të kapur një peshk shpatë gjigand. Ndërsa lufton për tre ditë, peshkatari i moshuar admiron fuqinë dhe dinjitetin e peshkut...

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.

'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'

Plaku dhe deti është një tregim për forcën dhe dinjitetin e shpirtit të njeriut. Me simbolikën e tij ai trajton pyetjen e madhe, se deri ku duhet të shkojë njeriu, deri ku duhet të guxojë. Për Heminguejin njeriu, në trevën e dyluftimit të pabarabartë, madje të vetë vdekjes, nuk ka përse të tërhiqet pa e provuar.

Dhe lind dielli është romani i parë i Ernest Heminguejit, njërit prej mjeshtërve më të mëdhenj të prozës bashkëkohore.

Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick.

When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.

But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.'