Hemingway: A Biography
7 best books like Hemingway: A Biography (Jeffrey Meyers): A Moveable Feast, Dragon Wing, Samuel Beckett, Hemingway: a Life Story, Hemingway, Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, Erebus: The Story of a Ship
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0099285045 |
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate, and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0553286390 |
Preeminent storytellers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have redefined epic fantasy. Since the publication of their Dragonlance series, millions of readers have enjoyed their imaginative world-building, rich characterization, and intricate storylines. Now these best-selling authors bring...
| Author | Deirdre Bair |
| ISBN | 0671691732 |
SAMUEL BECKETT is the first biography of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright. A monumental work of scholarship - arguably the most important book about Beckett ever published - SAMUEL BECKETT is also fascinating reading. Beckett's life has been as rich as his writing is spare, and Deirdre...
Because I’m a son of a bitch. -- Ernest Hemingway, late 1926.
Truly. The Hemingway that emerges in Carlos Baker’s mammoth (714 pages of small print, excluding notes) is virtually impossible to like, or even – it seems -- to pity (though that changes when it comes to his last feeble year...
| Author | Kenneth S. Lynn |
| ISBN | 0674387325 |
Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth...
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
| Author | Richard B. Frank |
| ISBN | 0140165614 |
The battle at Guadalcanal--which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor--marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese.This volume, ten years in the writing, recounts the full story...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its...
