Ernest Hemingway
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A veteran of the Great War, Jake Barnes is both physically and emotionally wounded, leaving him unable to be intimate. Even so, he pines after Lady Brett Ashley, a promiscuous twice-divorced woman. As feelings are hurt and punches are thrown, their lives and the lives of their friends and lovers become tangled as they journey from Paris to Spain and struggle with the repercussions that come from surviving the First World War. Sometimes referred to...
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[1952]
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English
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This adaptation of one of Ernest Hemingway's best-known short stories significantly expands on the original. As writer Harry Street lies gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he recalls his one true love, Cynthia Green, whom he lost because of his obsession for roaming the world. Meanwhile, Street's current wife tends to his wounds and tries to restore in him the will to survive.