Ernest Hemingway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hemingway's first bestselling novel, the story of a group of Americans and English on a sojourn from Paris to Paloma, evokes in poignant detail, life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank, during the 1920s and conveys in brutally realistic descriptions the power and danger of bullfighting in Spain.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...