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1899–1961
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 near Chicago and died in 1961. Before he was a novelist he was a journalist, and from the newsroom he took a rule he never dropped: short sentences, exact words and nothing to spare. What matters, he said, lies in what is left unsaid.
He saw several wars at close quarters, and the Spanish Civil War inspired For Whom the Bell Tolls, from 1940, the story of an American volunteer who spends three days with a band of guerrillas in the mountains. The Old Man and the Sea, from 1952, is much shorter: a Cuban fisherman, an enormous fish and a struggle of several days far out at sea. It won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A Moveable Feast, published in 1964, gathers his memories of youth in the Paris of the twenties, among cafés, writer friends and very little money.
Ernest Hemingway
Santiago, an ageing Cuban fisherman down on his luck, rows alone into the Gulf Stream and hooks a marlin of extraordinary size. Hemingway's spare, sea-bright prose turns a single struggle into a quiet fable about endurance, pride and the bond between an old man and the boy who believes in him.
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway looks back on his early years in 1920s Paris, a broke young journalist determined to become a writer and newly married to Hadley Richardson. Cafés, bookshops and the great names of the Lost Generation, from Gertrude Stein to Scott Fitzgerald, fill these short, vivid chapters. It reads like a warm, wistful stroll through a city and a youth that would never return.
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Ernest Hemingway
During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer and demolitions expert, is sent into the mountains to blow up a bridge alongside a band of Republican guerrillas. Over a few charged days among the pines he finds fierce comradeship, fear, and an unexpected love with María. Hemingway turns that tense wait into a searching reflection on loyalty, mortality and what it means to fight.
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