Ernest Hemingway - The Garden Of Eden (1986)

Read by Patrick Wilson


The erotic novel that Hemingway suppressed during his own lifetime is set in the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s and tells the story of five months in the life of author David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous sexual games they play.
On a Mediterranean honeymoon, writer David Bourne begins to receive excellent notices for his second novel. He is eager to begin writing again. His wife encourages him, but resenting his working solitude, she involves them both in a strange, erotic triangle with a young woman named Marita, with whom they both fall in love. Ultimately, however, only one of them can have Marita...

About The Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917 he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919 and married in 1921. In 1922 he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to writing fiction. 

Hemingway settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.