ER omslag Nr. 0018 T he Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Ernest Hemingway CONTEMPORARY C This volume contains three of Hemingway’s early short stories. THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO relates the story of a rootless expatriate, Harry, who is awaiting death in a safari camp at the foot of the snow-capped Kilimanjaro. Harry, who is honest to his own standards, sincere and courageous, is looking back upon his life: the violent experiences in World War I in Austria and Italy and the horrors of the Greco- Turkish war. In SOLDIER’s HOME Hemingway describes the estrange- ment from society of a young American soldier and in MY OLD MAN he tells the story of a warm and affectionate relationship between father and son, travelling in Europe from one race course to the other. Hemingway’s style is tough, simple and colloquial, full of understatements, revealing tenderness of feeling underneath descriptions of brutality. E A S S Y R R E A D D E R R S S S · E A S S Y R E A D E R S S · E A S Y R E A D D E R R S S S · E A S S S Y R E A D E R S S · ERNEST HEMINGWAY · THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO C EASY READERS are published in 4 series: A B C D based on a vocabulary of 650 words (A2) based on a vocabulary of 1200 words (A2) based on a vocabulary of 1800 words (B1) based on a vocabulary of 2500 words (B2) ISBN 978-87-23-90228-3 Denmark: EASY READERS ISBN 978-87-23-90228-3 Spain: ARCOBALENO Italy: LOESCHER EDITORE Brazil: SBS Australia: HEINEMANN USA: EMC CORP. Sweden: LIBER · ISBN 978-91-21-18780-7 Holland: PRACTICUM EDUCATIEF BV. UK and Eire: EUROPEAN SCHOOLBOOKS PUBLISHING LTD. Poland: WYDAWNICTWO LEKTORKLETT Hungary: KLETT KIADO KFT. Romania: FISCHER INTERNATIONAL Turkey: NÜANS PUBLISHING Russia: MANAGER LTD. Germany: ERNST KLETT SPRACHEN ISBN 978-3-12-536340-3
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ER omslag Nr. 0018
The Snows ofKilimanjaro
and Other StoriesErnest Hemingway
CONTEMPORARY C
This volume contains three of Hemingway’s early short stories.THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO relates the story of a
rootless expatriate, Harry, who is awaiting death in a safaricamp at the foot of the snow-capped Kilimanjaro. Harry, whois honest to his own standards, sincere and courageous, is looking back upon his life: the violent experiences in WorldWar I in Austria and Italy and the horrors of the Greco-Turkish war.
In SOLDIER’s HOME Hemingway describes the estrange-ment from society of a young American soldier and in MYOLD MAN he tells the story of a warm and affectionate relationship between father and son, travelling in Europe fromone race course to the other.
Hemingway’s style is tough, simple and colloquial, full ofunderstatements, revealing tenderness of feeling underneathdescriptions of brutality.
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EASY READERSare published in 4 series:
ABCD
based on a vocabulary of 650 words (A2)
based on a vocabulary of 1200 words (A2)
based on a vocabulary of 1800 words (B1)
based on a vocabulary of 2500 words (B2)
ISBN 978-87-23-90228-3
Denmark: EASY READERSISBN 978-87-23-90228-3
Spain: ARCOBALENOItaly: LOESCHER EDITOREBrazil: SBS Australia: HEINEMANNUSA: EMC CORP. Sweden: LIBER · ISBN 978-91-21-18780-7Holland: PRACTICUM EDUCATIEF BV.UK and Eire: EUROPEAN SCHOOLBOOKS
PUBLISHING LTD.Poland: WYDAWNICTWO LEKTORKLETTHungary: KLETT KIADO KFT.Romania: FISCHER INTERNATIONALTurkey: NÜANS PUBLISHINGRussia: MANAGER LTD.Germany: ERNST KLETT SPRACHEN
ISBN 978-3-12-536340-3
ER omslag Nr. 0018
EASY READERS Denmark
ERNST KLETT SPRACHEN Germany
ARCOBALENO Spain
LIBER Sweden
PRACTICUM EDUCATIEF BV. Holland
EMC CORP. USA
HEINEMANN Australia
EUROPEAN SCHOOLBOOKS PUBLISHING LTD. UK and Eire
WYDAWNICTWO LEKTORKLETT Poland
KLETT KIADO KFT. Hungary
FISCHER INTERNATIONAL Romania
NÜANS PUBLISHING Turkey
MANAGER LTD. Russia
LOESCHER EDITORE Italy
SBS Brazil
This edition has been abridged and simplified to providegraduated reading exercises for students of English.
Vocabulary and sentence structures have beenselected because of their high frequency and practical
value to the learner.Words which are difficult to understand in context or
fall out of the EASY READER frequency modules areexplained by footnotes in simple English or by illustrations.
EASY READERS are suitable for use in schools, for homestudy, or simply for reading enjoyment. See the complete
list of titles on the inside cover.EASY READERS are also available in German, French,
Spanish, Italian and Russian.
EASY READER TITLES NOW AVAILABLE:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Red Circle (A)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Speckled Band (A)Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Great Stone Face (A)Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (A)Lois Lowry: Number the Stars (A)R. L. Stine: Stay Out of the Basement (A)R. L. Stevenson: The Bottle Imp (A)Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost (A)Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost, dramatized version (A)Enid Blyton: Five on a Treasure Island (B)Roald Dahl: The Way up to Heaven and Other Stories (B)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Black Peter - The Red-Headed League (B)Lois Duncan: I know what you did last Summer (B)Lois Duncan: Killing Mr. Griffin (B)James Herriot: If Only They Could Talk (B)Colin Higgins: Harold and Maude (B)S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders (B)Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat (B)Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives (B)Pat Lowe: The Girl with No Name (B)Brian Moore: Lies of Silence (B)Richard Peck: Lost in Cyberspace (B)R. L. Stine: Fear Street: The Perfect Date (B)Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer (B)Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince (B)Richard Wright: Black Boy (B)Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (C)Tim Bowler: Storm Catchers (C)John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (C)John le Carré: Call for the Dead (C)Roald Dahl: Edward the Conqueror and Other Stories (C)Colin Dexter: The Inside Story (C)Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol (C)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (C)Graham Greene: The Third Man (C)Ernest Hemingway: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (C)James Heneghan: Safe House (C)James Herriot: Every Living Thing (C)Steven L. Layne: This Side of Paradise (C)Ira Levin: Rosemary’s Baby (C)Jack London: The Call of the Wild (C)James Moloney: Gracey (C)Ian Rankin: Concrete Evidence (C)Celia Rees: Witch Child (C) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (C)Alexander McCall Smith: Tears of the Giraffe (C)R. L. Stevenson: Treasure Island (C)Bram Stoker: Dracula (C)F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (D)Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (D)Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (D)R. L. Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (D)Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (D)
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