"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of his name conjures up a host of images--a cub reporter chasi...

Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during the war he found life in the United States provincial a...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur and as the stylistic genius of the century. His perso...

Exaggerating the Dangers of Global Warming How many news stories have we read recently about the imminent disappearance of the glaciers of Kilimanjaro? This latest spasm of "envirodoom" stems from Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson's latest paper in Science, in which he...

THE SNOWS of Mount Kilimanjaro, immortalised by an Ernest Hemingway short story, are melting so quickly they are expected to disappear within two decades. Researchers have found that the icefields capping Africa's highest mountain shrank by 80 per cent in the last century,...

Climate Change: If Al Gore was so confident about his global warming testimony, why did he break Senate rules requiring submission of an advance copy? Maybe to deny the "deniers" a chance to rebut his theories?Al Gore's contempt for global warming skeptics was shown by...

At Jinja pier the rusty red hull of a Lake Victoria freighter sat barely afloat in water just six feet deep _ and dropping. "The scientists have to explain this," said ship's engineer Gabriel Maziku.Across the bay, at a fish packing plant, fishermen had to...

In the following essay, Evans delineates the differing critical interpretations of various symbols in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro, " in addition to offering an alternative reading of his own.

In the following essay, originally published in 1965, Lewis explores the relationship between Helen and Harry, concluding Harry is portrayed as a tragic romantic

In the following essay, Meyers compares "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" to Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych," maintaining that it is a modern, non-religious version of Tolstoy's tale.

Describes the feelings of inadequacy in Ernest Hemingway's characters in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Argues that while the characters are well developed, each has a feeling of inadequacy and death was an escape for them.