I knew that something was going on there and that I had no clue what it was. Then I tried In Our Time. It made me hungry. I wanted to eat all of the food he described and actually tried cooking some of it. This Hemingway guy understood! He had it too, just like his characters. That was the point. I was just starting to recover from an upbringing among evangelical protestant end-of-the-world crazies so, yeah, the whole nada deal was an issue.
His books became, and still are, my clean well-lighted place. My sister, a high school freshman, had been assigned to read The Old Man and the Sea, then write an essay based on the book. Because she led a hectic social life, from time to time I would do her home work for her, so I penned an essay for her.
This time, however, her English teacher realized that the paper was the work of a much younger student. She called home. Our punishment for this academic transgression was having to watch the Spencer Tracy film after school one afternoon the next week. Some punishment!! And my sister still had to write her own essay.
Such was the enormous impact on the craft of English letters by the late writer, and for his contribution, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in These books have lost little over their years since their publishing in the early and midth century, and they continue to influence and inspire in the present. But there are many more Hemingway books that he wrote or was writing that, while overshadowed by the titans of his canon, are nevertheless worth a read by more than just the die-hard fan.
Lists are, by their nature, subjective, and they only become more so when one cares deeply about the subject. While the man had his own faults, his work displays surprisingly few, and there is no better time to get to know one of the greatest American authors to have ever lived.
Start here. You start here because, when you first read this book, you were much too young. Back then, you were worried about getting an A on your essay and where you would go to college and who you would ask to prom.
Praised by just above everyone from critics to competitors, it was viewed by Hemingway himself as his finest work. But as a reintroduction to Hemingway, there are few of his works that require as little a commitment, nor are there many that will stay with you as long. Approach your first Hemingway novel without fear and trembling. Its place as one of the most important works on World War I cannot be diminished, but it also represents a more confident writer, coming off a win, stretching his literary and fictional muscles.
Pack it next to your towel and sunscreen. This is, admittedly, a mouse-killer of an edition, a massive book that only the most die-hard fans will make it through. You can read one or five, put it down, and come back two weeks later, picking up right where you left off.
Hemingway began his fiction life as a short-story writer, and he is arguably one of the masters of the form. Henry steals Barkley from another man in the book but in real life, Kurowsky was stolen away by an Italian officer before she and Hemingway were set to be engaged. The book is considered to be among the best Ernest Hemingway books ever written.
It was controversial in its day and was banned at times in Italy, Ireland, and even Boston. Despite these bumps in the road, this book is a favorite of Hemingway fans for its timeless love story and its shocking ending. The book has been adapted into a very successful stage play, two movies, and a television mini-series, the most famous of which is the movie starring Rock Hudson. This movie depicts the real-life story of the Hemingway and Kurowsky relationship in Italy on which this book is based.
This is another of the books by Ernest Hemingway that is based on events in his life. In this novel, the main character is an American who has come to Spain to fight, not to observe and report as Hemingway did. Robert Jordan is a dynamite specialist who is ordered to carry out the assignment of blowing up a bridge in the town of Segovia, Spain.
Along the way, he works with a group of anti-Fascist guerillas and meets a Spanish woman named Maria with whom he falls in love. The book illustrates the brutality of war in general and this Spanish conflict specifically. Death is the largest theme since, in war, death is everywhere and is contemplated all the time.
Other war-related themes are also present: camaraderie, duty, and sacrifice. Suicide is often pondered and discussed in the book which makes it both sad and telling to read now since Hemingway took his own life in This is yet another semi-autobiographical novel that bases the main characters not only on Hemingway himself but also on his close friends at that time.
While in Spain, the group experiences love, lust, fights, jealousy, bullfights, and a lot of heavy drinking. The final act of the book deals with the characters as they go their separate ways from the Pamplona trip and deal with its repercussions. This is an amazing first novel from a young author and the themes of love, betrayal, gender roles, impotence, and more are incredibly advanced. This group of young people was considered to be ruined by WWI.
In this book, Hemingway uses the characters to represent the archetypes of the generation and show that they were more complex, moral, and resilient than most people thought.
After covering the 4 novels that most people agree are the overall best books by Ernest Hemingway, a more subjective argument can take place about what comes next.
Because Hemingway started out as a journalist and carried that way of working throughout all his books, whether fiction or not, the next spot on this list goes to one of his non-fiction works.
Death in the Afternoon was a passion project for Hemingway combining two things he loved throughout his life: Spain and bullfighting. The book actually came about as a result of his trips with his wife and friends to the Pamplona fiesta which is what inspired his first significant novel, The Sun Also Rises. On these trips, between the drinking, fighting, and affairs of the heart, Hemingway fell in love with what he would describe as the artistry of bullfighting.
It was more than a sport to him. It was ritual and pageantry and tragedy all rolled up into one. He used the sport as a way to talk about common themes in his books such as life and death, manliness, bravery, and fear. The book includes everything you need to know about how bullfighting works from a technical perspective and includes the history of the sport, all told with the trademark Hemingway simplicity and vividness. While many people believe bullfighting to be a cruel and inhumane practice, after reading this book, it is hard to not walk away and see at least some of what Hemingway sees.
He sees this brutal activity as more than a sport. To him, it is a way for both the participants and spectators to find out more about their true selves and the meaning of life.
This book is part of the third genre of best Ernest Hemingway books, the short story collection. Although Hemingway was best known as a novelist and was a journalist by trade, he was a short story writer at heart and his collections of short stories are some of the most interesting, thrilling, and heartbreaking works he ever wrote. This is the middle volume of the three main collections of short stories published during his lifetime. The stories in this book include the most famous short stories he wrote; they are also considered more mature than the ones that preceded it in In Our Time and less dark and brooding than the works that followed in Winner Takes Nothing.
The collection includes a total of 14 short stories, including three that are very well-known to even the most casual Hemingway fan. In Hills Like White Elephants , a man and a young woman debate whether she should have an abortion without ever mentioning it at a Madrid train station. Many of these short stories use the character of Nick Adams. He is explicitly mentioned as a main character in The Killers and assumed to be the narrator in In Another Country.
This memoir is about a specific and very interesting period in his life. It mostly discusses his time with the Lost Generation in Paris during the s. The book was put together based on writing and notes from the time and was edited by his fourth wife, Mary Hemingway.
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