Ernest Hemingway

Library Corner: World War I tales for Vets Day

Column by Chris SkaugsetFor The Daily News In honor of Veteran’s Day, I will devote this column to books about World War I, originally known as the Great War and also, rather optimistically and unfortunately incorrectly, known...

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Boy Crosses Ocean for Girl -- Andrew London's Xlibris Release Pulls on All Heartstrings

JERSEYVILLE, Ill., Nov. 9, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Andrew London unveils a heartrending tale of love with Ten Minutes of Forever, his novel published through Xlibris. Ten Minutes of Forever follows the touching story of a girl...

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The golden, melting, re-freezing and ultimately disappearing snows of Kilimanjaro

Papa Hemingway probably didn’t see this coming. When he wrote “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway described the summit of that African mountain as “wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably...

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The Four-letter Word That Will Transform Your Writing Career Posted By : Dwight Clough

What if I could give you one word that would transform your writing career? Impossible? Not at all. It's not only possible, but when you understand this word and its power, it will forever change how you look at writing. In...

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Snows of Kilimanjaro rapidly melting

The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak -- made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway -- is rapidly melting, researchers report. About 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers...

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Skiing in your own private Idaho

Skiing by day and sleeping in a network of remote yurts by night is the ideal way to experience the wilds in this underrated state We had the valley beneath Thompson Peak entirely to ourselves. A broad trench, snow-lined and...

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Movie news recap: ‘White Lightnin' wins at 11th Mumbai Film Festival

The movie news recap for November 6 features the Best film winner at the Mumbai international film festival and Disney's christmas international release. ‘White Lightnin' wins at 11th Mumbai Film Festival Dominic Murphy's...

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Book review: Ransom

Your account has been frozen. Published Date: 07 November 2009 RANSOM BY DAVID MALOUF Chatto & Windus, 224pp, £14 ERNEST HEMINGWAY USED to say that all American literature came out of Huckleberry Finn. Sometimes, as David...

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Valuev-Haye Travel Log : More Tales of Two Cities

PARIS - Valuev-Haye is a big deal throughout many parts of Germany and the United Kingdom. If you're in Berlin or London, there's more than sufficient buzz and media coverage to perceive that there's a big deal about to go down...

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Prize-winning author speaks at Jones lecture

A 9-year-old sat and dreamed about being a writer, influenced by such book series as The Berenstain Bears and Hardy Boys. But the boy grew up and the playfulness of writing took a backseat to the real world.

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