The Essential Hemingway: Containing One Complete Novel , Extracts from Three Others, Twenty Three Short Stories and a Chapter from "Death in the Afternoon" - Hardcover

Hemingway, Ernest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224602764 ISBN 13: 9780224602761

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1947

Synopsis

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 fiction. He settled in Paris with other expatriots like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big gane 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.

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Review

"An excellent story-teller, intense and skillful" * Daily Telegraph * "He can perform prodigies. He can fascinate us by pure evocation, by the tensity of the situation" * Times Literary Supplement * "Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality" * Guardian *

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1947
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224602764
• ISBN 13: 9780224602761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448