Hemingway

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Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality.This evocative, sympathetic ...
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Overview

Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality.This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous life: an accident-prone youth and early rivalry with his father; his experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II; his stormy relationships with writers and women; his sudden fame, slow decline, and suicide. Based on previously unavailable information and exclusive interviews, Hemingway enriches anyone's understanding and appreciation of America's most important twentieth-century writer.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780306808906
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/1999
  • Edition description: 1 DA CAPO
  • Pages: 684
  • Sales rank: 470,046
  • Product dimensions: 1.44 (w) x 5.00 (h) x 8.00 (d)

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Jeffrey Meyers
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Table of Contents

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Maps
Acknowledgments
1 A Midwestern Boyhood, 1899-1917 1
2 Kansas City and the War, 1917-1918 22
3 Hadley, 1919-1921 45
4 Paris, 1922-1923 63
5 European Reporter, 1922-1923 91
6 A Writer's Life, 1924 125
7 Duff Twysden and Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 152
8 Pauline, 1926 172
9 Accidents, 1927-1928 194
10 Key West, 1928-1929 205
11 The Public Image, 1930-1932 222
12 Jane Mason, 1932-1936 242
13 Africa, 1933-1934 257
14 In the Caribbean, 1934-1936 280
15 Martha and the Spanish War, 1936-1938 298
16 The End of Something, 1939-1940 326
17 Finca Vigia and China, 1940-1942 348
18 Our Man in Havana, 1942-1944 367
19 To the Siegfried Line, 1944-1945 389
20 Mary, 1945-1948 418
21 Adriana, 1948-1950 438
22 The Lost Hero: Across the River and into the Trees, 1950 453
23 Death in the Family, 1951-1953 478
24 Second Safari, 1953-1954 497
25 The Dangerous Summers, 1955-1959 511
26 The Mayo Clinic, 1960-1961 538
27 Suicide and Aftermath 555
App. I Accidents and Injuries 573
App. II Trips Abroad 577
Notes 579
Select Bibliography 623
Index 625
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