{"product_id":"2026100009743-secondhand-ernest-hemingway-selected-letters-1917-1961","title":"Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917-1961","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: trade ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind every great literary legend lies a private voice, and in Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917–1961, that voice speaks with startling candour, wit, and ferocity. Spanning nearly half a century of correspondence, this meticulously curated collection presents Hemingway at his most unguarded — writing to friends, fellow authors, editors, and family across the battlefields of World War I, the salons of Paris, the fishing waters of Cuba, and the final, turbulent years of his life. Here is the man behind the myth: blustering and tender, opinionated and achingly vulnerable, his prose as lean and muscular in a personal letter as in any of his celebrated novels.\n\nEdited by the eminent Hemingway scholar Carlos Baker, whose authoritative biography remains the definitive account of the author's life, this volume is an indispensable document for anyone serious about American literature. Baker's selection illuminates the full arc of Hemingway's creative evolution, revealing how his hard-won aesthetic philosophy — truth-telling stripped of all pretension — was forged not just at the writing desk, but in the raw, unfiltered rush of lived experience. Readers who think they know Ernest Hemingway will find themselves reconsidering everything they thought was certain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203268059355,"sku":"2026100009743-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/759d6c40-444e-4048-a262-8b0a6a13c7f3.png?v=1788147056","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009743-secondhand-ernest-hemingway-selected-letters-1917-1961","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}