Parmi la cinquantaine de nouvelles d'Hemingway, plusieurs ont pour héros Nick Adams, alter ego de l'écrivain. Dans ce recueil intitulé Les forêts du Nord, elles sont replacées dans l'ordre chronologique. Toutes évoquent la jeunesse et l'adolescence de Nick Adams dans le Michigan, à la frontière canadienne, un État peuplé d'Indiens.

Les forêts du Nord ; the Northern woods

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Pour Qui Sonne le Glas

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded, and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it, Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

L'adieu aux armes

First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer — a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing — from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) — this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene.  Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters — including an aging prostitute who stands out as one of Hemingway's most vivid creations — engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway at his mature best.

Îles à la dérive

De retour du front italien, lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, le jeune Nick Adams, futur écrivain, se retrouve dans les environs d'Horton 's Bay, près du lac Michigan, sur les lieux de son enfance.Il pêche et se baigne comme s'il accomplissait les rites d'une purification. Il suffira que le monde se reflète de nouveau sur le flanc argenté de la truite pour que la rivière tout entière reprenne ses droits exclusifs sur lui. Il suffira qu'il se retrouve nageant dans l'eau claire du lac, tout près de Kate, dans la douceur d'une nuit d'été, pour que revienne le goût d'aimer dans l'insouciante légèreté de la jeunesse.

La Grande rivière au cœur double : suivi de Gens d'été

Frédéric Henry, jeune Américain volontaire dans les ambulances sur le front d'Italie, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, est blessé et s'éprend de son infirmière, Catherine Barkley. Avec Catherine, enceinte, il tente de fuir la guerre et de passer en Suisse, où le destin les attend. 
Un des meilleurs romans de guerre. Un des plus grands romans d'amour.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM

îles à la dérive

Santiago, pêcheur cubain très pauvre, n'a d'affection dans la vie qu'un gamin qui pêche avec lui. Depuis 85 jours il n'a rien pris et les parents du garçon ne veulent plus qu'il l'accompagne, le vieil homme part donc seul. Au large un énorme espadon mord. Mais, après trois jours de lutte, les requins ne lui laisseront que la tête et l'arête.

Les forêts du Nord ; the Northern woods

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