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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

Volume 6. 1934–1936

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Ernest Hemingway, Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale, Miriam B. Mandel
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  • Date Published: May 2024
  • availability: In stock
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521897389

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  • The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro.' In more than twenty pieces in Esquire, he relates his hunting and fishing exploits, discusses writing and writers, and becomes more politically vocal, addressing topical concerns. During this period he immerses himself in big game fishing off Key West, Cuba, and Bimini, gathering specimens for scientific study and making record catches, as well as taking on boxing challengers. He maintains longstanding literary friendships, advises and helps aspiring writers and contemporary artists, and makes public his disdain of critics. Volume 6 also features for the first time an Appendix of Earlier Letters (1918–1934) that have come to light since publication of previous volumes. Writing his epistolary autobiography, Hemingway himself reveals the many and sometimes contradictory facets of his wide-ranging genius.

    • Volume 6 provides accurate transcriptions of all located Hemingway letters written from June 1934 through June 1936
    • Of the 366 letters of this period in the volume, about 85% are appearing in print for the first time
    • Includes, for the first time in the series, an Appendix of Earlier Letters that have come to light since publication of the previous volumes
    • It contains 47 items dating back to 1918, with recipients including a high school girlfriend, members of his 1921 wedding party, writers Morley Callaghan and Donald Ogden Stewart, and Spanish painter Joan Miró
    • Visual material includes maps of significant locations and travels, facsimile reproductions, Hemingway's own in-text drawings and sketches and a 16-page plate section with photos of Hemingway and his correspondents, family and friends, many of which have never previously appeared in print
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    Awards

    • Winner, 2024 Lyman H. Butterfield Award, Association for Documentary Editing

    Reviews & endorsements

    'This latest installment of the monumental Hemingway Letters project is pure gold. This volume is a fascinating window into a pivotal time in his life, which we all but live alongside him as it unfolds. His fierce passion for fishing, the brewing war in Spain, his complicated relationships with other writers and friends – it all comes vividly alive in his own inimitable words.' Lynn Novick, Co-Director/Producer of PBS Docuseries 'Hemingway'

    'A revealing and enchanting window into Hemingway's life and work.' Kirkus Reviews

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    • Date Published: May 2024
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521897389
    • length: 786 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 160 x 40 mm
    • weight: 1.42kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    List of plates
    List of maps
    General editor's introduction
    Acknowledgments
    Note on the text
    Abbreviations and short titles
    Introduction to the volume Verna Kale
    Chronology
    Maps
    The letters April 1934–1936
    Roster of correspondents
    Calendar of letters
    Appendix of earlier letters
    Index of recipients
    General index.

  • Author

    Ernest Hemingway

    Editors

    Sandra Spanier, Pennsylvania State University
    Sandra Spanier is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway and a co-editor of the previous five volumes. Her essays have appeared in Modern Critical Interpretations: A Farewell to Arms (1987), Cambridge's New Essays on A Farewell to Arms (1990), Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (2002), Ernest Hemingway in Context (2013), and The New Hemingway Studies (2020), and she serves on the editorial board of the Hemingway Review. Her books include Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015), Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist (1986), as well as editions of Boyle's Life Being the Best and Other Stories (1988) and Process: A Novel (2001) and Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles's rediscovered 1946 play, Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts (1995; revised edition 2010).

    Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
    Verna Kale is Associate Research Professor in English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. She is the author of the critical biography Ernest Hemingway (2016) and editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender (2016). Her work has appeared in Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing (2021), The New Hemingway Studies (2020), Hemingway's Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding (2019), Hemingway in Context (2012), Hemingway and the Geography of Memory (2010), the Hemingway Review, and the Journal of Popular Culture.

    Miriam B. Mandel, Tel-Aviv University
    Miriam B. Mandel is Senior Lecturer (retired) in the Department of English and American Culture of Tel Aviv University. She served as co-editor of the fourth and fifth volumes of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and as Associate Editor of the first two volumes. Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995, reissued 2011), Hemingway's “Death in the Afternoon”: The Complete Annotations (2001), and Hemingway's “The Dangerous Summer”: The Complete Annotations (2008). She is the editor of A Companion to “Death in the Afternoon” (2004, reissued 2009) and Hemingway in Africa (2011, reissued 2016). She has published more than thirty essays in peer-reviewed academic journals and books, is the recipient of seven major grants, and serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review.

    Contributors

    Ernest Hemingway, Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale, Miriam B. Mandel

    Awards

    • Winner, 2024 Lyman H. Butterfield Award, Association for Documentary Editing

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