Ernest Hemingway Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  2. A Clean Well Lighted Place (1926)
  3. The Torrents of Spring (1926)
  4. An Alpine Idyll (1927)
  5. A Farewell To Arms (1929)
  6. To Have and Have Not (1937)
  7. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  8. Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
  9. The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  10. A Moveable Feast (1964)
  11. The Undefeated (1965)
  12. Islands in the Stream (1970)
  13. The Garden of Eden (1985)
  14. The Dangerous Summer (1985)
  15. True At First Light (1999)
  16. Camping Out (2014)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. 3 Short Stories and 10 Poems (1923)
  2. The Complete Short Stories (1925)
  3. In Our Time (1925)
  4. Men Without Women (1927)
  5. Winner Take Nothing (1933)
  6. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (1936)
  7. The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1938)
  8. The First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
  9. The Nick Adams Stories (1966)
  10. The Killers and Other Short Stories. (1982)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Death in the Afternoon (1932)
  2. Green Hills of Africa (1935)
  3. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber & Other Stories (1936)
  4. Articles for The Kansas City Star (1970)
  5. Bullfighting, Sport & Industry (1974)
  6. Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981)
  7. Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984)
  8. Dateline Toronto (1985)
  9. On Writing (1986)
  10. Conversations with Ernest Hemingway (1986)
  11. Hemingway at Oak Park High (1993)
  12. Hemingway on Fishing (2000)
  13. Hemingway on War (2003)
  14. Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
  15. On Paris (2008)

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Books In Publication Order

  1. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922 (With: ) (2011)
  2. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 (With: ) (2013)
  3. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929 (With: ) (2015)
  4. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 4, 1929–1931 (2017)
  5. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934 (With: ) (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  2. 50 Great American Short Stories (1963)
  3. The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020)

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Ernest Hemingway Books Overview

The Sun Also Rises

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

A Clean Well Lighted Place

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

The Torrents of Spring

An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century

First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that ‘great race’ of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers akin to Anderson such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway’s early career as a storyteller and stylist.

A Farewell To Arms

Hemingway’s classic novel of the First World War The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell To Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway’s frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell To Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, ‘Hemingway’s gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.’

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway’s classic novel of the Spanish Civil War

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war; three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from ‘the good fight,’ For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Surpassing his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. ‘If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,’ Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, ‘no one ever so completely performed it.’ For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.

Across the River and into the Trees

HEMINGWAY’S POIGNANT TALE OF A LOVE FOUND TOO LATESet in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is becoming a physical hardship to him. It is a love so overpowering and spontaneous that it revitalizes the man’s spirit and encourages him to dream of a future, even though he knows that there can be no hope for long. Spanning a matter of hours, Across the River and into the Trees is tender and moving, yet tragic in the inexorable shadow of what must come. Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.

The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.

A Moveable Feast

Hemingway’s memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content In the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that ‘if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction’ and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesn’t matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the ’20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every caf table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip ‘fragrant, colorless alcohols’ and chat admid her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious. Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: ‘All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.’

Hemingway beautifully captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be nostalgic without hitting any false notes of sentimentality. ‘This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy,’ he concludes. Originally published in 1964, three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast was the first of his posthumous books and remains the best. David Laskin

Islands in the Stream

A LATER CLASSIC FROM AMERICA’S PREMIER FICTION WRITER

First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway’s death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale.

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.

The Garden of Eden

A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the C te d’Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. ‘A lean, sensuous narrative…
taut, chic, and strangely contemporary,’ The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master ‘doing what nobody did better’ R. Z. Sheppard, Time.

The Dangerous Summer

The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century’s preeminent writers.

True At First Light

Both revealing self portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway’s last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True At First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena’s cry. As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the ‘incalculable casualties of marriage,’ and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent. In True At First Light, Hemingway also chronicles his exploits sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant among the African men with whom he has become very close, reminisces about encounters with other writers and his days in Paris and Spain and satirizes, among other things, the role of organized religion in Africa. He also muses on the act of writing itself and the author’s role in determining the truth. What is fact and what is fiction? This is a question that was posed by Hemingway’s readers throughout his career and is one of his principal subjects here. Equally adept at evoking the singular textures of the landscape, the thrill of the hunt and the complexities of married life, Hemingway weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and profound insight. True At First Light is an extraordinary publishing event a breathtaking final work from one of this nation’s most beloved and important writers.

The Complete Short Stories

The Finca Vigia edition of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway collects for the first time the complete work of the acknowledged master of the genre. This landmark collection includes the entire contents of The First Forty Nine, the first omnibus volume of Hemingway’s works publishedin 1939, as well as 14 stories published subsequently in other books or magazines and seven works published for the first time in the hardcover edition.

In Our Time

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS

When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories ‘Indian Camp,’ ‘The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,’ ‘The Three Day Blow,’ and ‘The Battler,’ and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart.

Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway’s later works.

Men Without Women

CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In ‘Banal Story,’ Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. ‘In Another Country’ tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. ‘The Killers’ is the hard edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in ‘Ten Indians,’ in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ is a young couple’s subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America’s finest short story writer.

Winner Take Nothing

Ernest Hemingway’s first new book of fiction since the publication of ‘A Farewell to Arms’ in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. ‘A Clean, Well Lighted Place’ is about an old Spanish Beggar. ‘Homage to Switzerland’ concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway station restaurant. ‘The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio’ is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States, and so on. Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short story writer. He has always excelled in that medium, and this volume reveals him at his best.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway’s most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty Nine Stories, this collection includes ‘The Killers,’ the first of Hemingway’s mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical ‘Fathers and Sons,’ which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway’s career, to his father’s suicide; ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,’ a ‘brilliant fusion of personal observation, heresay, and invention,’ wrote Hemingway’s biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: ‘I put all the true stuff in,’ with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America’s master storytellers at the top of his form.

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War

Featuring Hemingway’s only full length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s. These works, which grew from Hemingway’s adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.

The First Forty-Nine Stories

From Ernest Hemingway’s Preface: ‘There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.’ This is a collection of Hemingway’s first forty nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including ‘Up in Michigan’, ‘Fifty Grand’, and ‘The Light of the World’, and the ‘Snows of Kilimanjaro’, ‘Winner Take Nothing’ and ‘Men Without Women’ collections.

The Nick Adams Stories

The Classic Stories Featuring One of Hemingway’s Most Famous Characters ‘Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then.’ So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer of course was Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood summers, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now famous ‘Nick Adams’ stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway’s life. In this arrangement Nick Adams emerges clearly as the first in a long line of Hemingway’s fictional selves. Later versions were all to have behind them part of Nick’s history and, correspondingly, part of Hemingway’s. This is a must have for fans of the iconic author.

Death in the Afternoon

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway’s conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway’s imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and ‘the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick.’ Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance and cunning. A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway’s sharp commentary on life and literature.

Green Hills of Africa

His second major venture into nonfiction after Death in the Afternoon, 1932, Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway’s well known interest in and fascination with big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Yet Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man. Hemingway’s rich description of the beauty and strangeness of the land and his passion for the sport of hunting combine to give Green Hills of Africa the freshness and immediacy of a deeply felt personal experience that is the hallmark of the greatest travel writing.

Articles for The Kansas City Star

Ernest Miller Hemingway 1899 1961 was a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as the Lost Generation. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea 1952, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway’s distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as grace under pressure. Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature. His works include: The Torrents of Spring 1926, The Sun Also Rises 1926, A Farewell to Arms 1929, To Have and Have Not 1937, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940 and Across the River and Into the Trees 1950.

Selected Letters 1917-1961

The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language, and the Nobel Prize awarded to him in 1954 recognized his impact on contemporary writing. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. With this collection of letters, presented for the first time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly six hundred letters is, in effect, both a self portrait and an autobiography. In his own words, Hemingway candidly reveals himself to a wide variety of people: family, friends, enemies, editors, translators, and almost all the prominent writers of his day. In so doing he proves to be one of the most entertaining letter writers of all time. Carlos Baker has chosen letters that not only represent major turning points in Hemingway’s career but also exhibit character, wit, and the writer’s typical enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, drinking, and eating. A few are ingratiating, some downright truculent. Others present his views on writing and reading, criticize books by friend or foe, and discuss women, soldiers, politicians, and prizefighters. Perhaps more than anything, these letters show Hemingway’s irrepressible humor, given far freer rein in his correspondence than in his books. An informal biography in letters, the product of forty five years’ living and writing, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters leaves an indelible impression of an extraordinary man. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. At seventeen he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. He was severely wounded at the Italian front and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, and where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises 1926, A Farewell to Arms 1929, To Have and Have Not 1937, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940, and The Old Man and the Sea 1952. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

‘Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing that it takes off ‘whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.” Despite this belief, by the end of his life he had done just what he intended not to do. In his novels and stories, in letters to editors, friends, fellow artists, and critics, in interviews and in commissioned articles on the subject, Hemingway wrote often about writing. And he wrote as well and as incisively about the subject as any writer who ever lived…
. This book contains Hemingway’s reflections on the nature of the writer and on elements of the writer’s life, including specific and helpful advice to writers on the craft of writing, work habits, and discipline. The Hemingway personality comes through in general wisdom, wit, humor, and insight, and in his insistence on the integrity of the writer and of the profession itself. From the Preface by Larry W. Phillips

Dateline Toronto

Dateline: Toronto collects all 172 pieces that Hemingway published in the Star, including those under pseudonyms. Hemingway readers will discern his unique voice already present in many of these pieces, particularly his knack for dialogue. It is also fascinating to discover early reportorial accounts of events and subjects that figure in his later fiction. As William White points out in his introduction to this work, ‘Much of it, over sixty years later, can still be read both as a record of the early twenties and as evidence of how Ernest Hemingway learned the craft of writing.’ The enthusiasm, wit, and skill with which these pieces were written guarantee that Dateline: Toronto will be read for pleasure, as excellent journalism, and for the insights it gives to Hemingway’s works.

On Writing

‘Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing that it takes off ‘whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.” Despite this belief, by the end of his life he had done just what he intended not to do. In his novels and stories, in letters to editors, friends, fellow artists, and critics, in interviews and in commissioned articles on the subject, Hemingway wrote often about writing. And he wrote as well and as incisively about the subject as any writer who ever lived…
. This book contains Hemingway’s reflections on the nature of the writer and on elements of the writer’s life, including specific and helpful advice to writers on the craft of writing, work habits, and discipline. The Hemingway personality comes through in general wisdom, wit, humor, and insight, and in his insistence on the integrity of the writer and of the profession itself. From the Preface by Larry W. Phillips

Hemingway on Fishing

From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family’s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he did from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream. In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a caf in Paris and writing about what he knew best and when it came time to stop, he ‘did not want to leave the river.’ The story was the unforgettable classic, ‘Big Two Hearted River,’ and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He also wrote articles for the Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles for Esquire about his growing passion for big game fishing. His last books, The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream, celebrate his vast knowledge of the ocean and his affection for its great denizens. Hemingway on Fishing is an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating collection. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer’s passion; the range of his interests; the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature. Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will welcome this important collection.

Hemingway on War

Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, and he recorded them with matchless power. Now, this landmark volume brings together Hemingway’s most important writings on war. Edited and with an introduction by Hemingway’s grandson Se n and featuring a personal foreword by the author’s only living son, Patrick, this volume includes selections from Hemingway’s first book of short stories, In Our Time, as well as from A Farewell to Arms, his towering novel of World War I. Excerpts from For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway’s indelible portrait of life and love during the Spanish Civil War, along with his only full length play, The Fifth Column, brilliantly evoke the tumultuous war torn Spain of the late 1930s. Passages from Across the River and Into the Trees vividly portray an emotionally scarred career soldier in the twilight of life as he reflects on the nature of war. Classic short stories, such as ‘In Another Country’ and ‘The Butterfly and the Tank,’ stand alongside captivating selections from Hemingway’s war correspondence during his nearly twenty five years as a reporter for The Toronto Star and other papers. Among these journalistic pieces are the author’s coverage of the Greco Turkish War of 1922, a legendary early interview with Mussolini, and his jolting eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Hemingway on War is a compelling collection of Ernest Hemingway’s best writings about the devastating impact of human combat. Brought together for the first time, these works represent the author’s penetrating and frank accounts of courage, fear, perseverance, depression, and hope in the midst of war.

Under Kilimanjaro

An American literary treasure’The sun was not up but that was because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the light was gray but good and Ngui and I were walking through the grass that was wet from the dew. He walked ahead because he knew where the bait had been hung and I watched the trees and his back and the trail his black legs made through the wetness of the grass. We walked silently and the cold wet of the new knee high grass against my legs was cold and pleasant. Ngui carried the old Winchester pump gun and I carried the Springfield and the only noise that I heard from myself was the light slopping of the tea in my stomach.’ Under Kilimanjaro by Ernest HemingwayAccompanied by his fourth wife Mary, famed American novelist Ernest Hemingway spent several months in late 1953 and early 1954 on his final safari in Kenya. Their time there came to an abrupt end in early January 1954 when they sustained serious injuries from two near fatal plane crashes in east Africa. While recovering, and back home in Havana, Hemingway wrote his ‘African book,’ which is, by turns, an adventuresome, comedic, and thoughtful recounting of his final safari. In Under Kilimanjaro ‘Papa’ colors real people and events with his lively imagination as he demonstrates his inimitable style, his deft wit, and his intelligent curiosity in this autobiographical novel about the land and people he came to love. Completed in 1956, Under Kilimanjaro is part handwritten and part typed, with many of the pages heavily edited in Hemingway’s hand. He then left this manuscript, along with those for A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, and The Garden of Eden, in a safe deposit box in Cuba, often referring to them as his ‘life insurance’ for his heirs. Under Kilimanjaro is the last of Hemingway’s manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming believe that ‘this book deserves as complete and faithful a publication as possible without editorial distortion, speculation, or textually unsupported attempts at improvement. Our intent has been to produce a complete reading text of Ernest Hemingway’s manuscript…
. Working on it was both a privilege and a responsibility…
. Readers of this remarkable work will experience the mingled pleasure of revisiting the familiar and discovering the new.’To its readers, Under Kilimanjaro reveals a mature, tender, happy, and reflective Hemingway and offers a compelling, deliberately paced, subtle story of a place and time as only Ernest Hemingway could write it.

On Paris

Written for the Toronto Star between 1920 and 1924, this selection of energetic pieces from Hemingway sees the author focus his gaze On Paris. Writing with characteristic verve, the author tackles cultural topics in chapters such as Living on $1,000 a Year in Paris, American Bohemians in Paris, and Parisian Boorishness. ‘The scum of Greenwich Village, New York, has been skimmed off and deposited in large ladles on that section of Paris adjacent to the Caf Rotonde. New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum and the scummiest scum,’ Hemingway wryly observes, ‘has come across the ocean, somehow, and with its afternoon and evening levees has made the Rotonde the leading Latin Quarter showplace for tourists in search of atmosphere.’

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

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