He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940 they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. After his 1927 divorce from Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. He published his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. After high school, he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian Front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Keach read all three volumes of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway for Simon & Schuster Audio.Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Other television features include Prison Break, and Titus. His films include American History X, Escape from LA, Keep Your Distance, and Birds of Passage. Stacy Keach a star of stage, film, and television, won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Nomination for his acclaimed portrayal of Hemingway in the definitive television epic. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. It is a perfect introduction for a new generation of Hemingway readers, and it belongs in the collection of any true Hemingway fan.Įrnest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. This work offers vital insight into the artistic development of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway presents many of Hemingway’s most famous classics alongside rare and unpublished material: Hemingway’s early drafts and correspondence, his dazzling out-of-print essay on the art of the short story, and two marvelous examples of his earliest work-his first published story, “The Judgment of Manitou,” which Hemingway wrote when still a high school student, and a never-before-published story, written when the author was recovering from a war injury in Milan after WWI.
We also see, in Hemingway’s short fiction, the tales that created the legend: these are stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time. In classics like “Hills like White Elephants,” “The Butterfly in the Tank,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Hemingway shows us great literature compressed to its most potent essentials. Of all of Hemingway’s canonical fictions, perhaps none demonstrate so forcefully the power of the author’s revolutionary style as his short stories. The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.Įrnest Hemingway is a cultural icon-an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile-but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.
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