The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and other stories
By Ernest Hemingway
Read By Stacy Keach
Unabridged
64 KBit/s CBR / 44,100 Hz / Mono
135 MB
5 Hours Approx
In these Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from hauntingly tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway presents the story of a writer at the end of his life. While on a safari in Africa, Harry, the protagonist, is scratched on the leg by a thorn, and the infection becomes gangrenous and eventually kills him. Where most of Hemingway's stories feature protagonists who speak little and reflect nothing at all about their motivations and inner lives, in this story the main character "sees his life flash before his eyes" as he realises that he is dying.
Many readers have seen Harry as a self-portrait of Hemingway himself. Reading the story this way, the reader can look into Hemingway's struggles with himself: his insecurities, his machismo, his need and disdain for women. But it is not necessary to read the story through the lens of Hemingway's biography. The story is a gripping look at a man who is facing death and regretting many of the choices he has made in his life, as well as being a memorable glimpse inside the head of a writer who is reflecting on his craft and the demands it has made on him.
About The Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917 he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919 and married in 1921. In 1922 he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to writing fiction. Hemingway settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
About The Reader
Stacy Keach (Jr.) was born in Savannah, Georgia on June 2, 1941.Cited frequently as one of American's finest stage actors, Stacy Keach was a multiple award winner for his commanding performances in productions ranging from the works of Shakespeare to modern classics like "MacBird," "Indians" and "The Kentucky Cycle," which netted him widespread acclaim as the "American Olivier" as well as a Tony nomination and multiple Obies and Drama Desk Awards. His career in front of the camera yielded mixed results - though he was praised for early film roles like "Doc" (1970) and John Huston's "Fat City" (1972), he never received the same degree of praise as contemporaries like Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson. More often than not, he could be found dividing his time between quality projects like "The Long Riders" (1980) and "W" (2008) and low-budget efforts like "Mountain of the Cannibal God" (1978) and "Class of 1999" (1990). Television was always his most successful medium outside of the stage - he received a Golden Globe nomination for his turn as the two-fisted private eye "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" (CBS, 1984-87), though the series was interrupted by his much-publicized arrest for drug possession in 1985, which earned him six months in a London prison. Despite his infamous legal troubles - Keach fans never lost their admiration and love for the man; the moustache - particularly when - in the great tradition of Bogart or Ladd - their hero donned the infamous Hammer trench coat to save the damsel in distress and nail the bad guys like no other TV actor of his time.
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Thanks for this.
You're welcome Victor. -------------------- R