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LC Class. PS3515.E37. The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major fictional work Hemingway published during his lifetime. It tells the story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin.
That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 in the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". The story was originally published, in a slightly different form, as "That Evening Sun Go Down" in The American Mercury in March of the same year.
The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) [1] with three stanzas published in 1633 [2] by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern. The longest lines are at the end of the three stanzas and the rhyme ...
Anne St. John. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 (O.S.) – 26 July 1680 (O.S.)) [4] was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II 's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. [3] Rochester embodied this new era, and he became as well known for his rakish lifestyle as for ...
Paradiso at Wikisource. Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante 's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.
First edition of The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 by Scribner's, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleon (Cleo Damianakes). The Hellenistic jacket design "breathed sex yet also evoked classical Greece". [1] The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. It portrays American and British expatriates who travel ...
Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. [1] It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection [2] and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. [3]
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from ...