Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose spare, muscular prose style influenced virtually every writer who came after him. He served as an ambulance driver in World War I, covered the Spanish Civil War, survived two plane crashes in Africa, and lived with the intensity of a man who believed experience was the only raw material worth having. This author hub collects 4 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Old Man and the Sea.
Start with The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, ranked #51 in the Canon Compass list.
Featured Books
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Santiago's epic battle with a giant marlin. The Nobel Prize-winning parable of courage and endurance.
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: expatriates drink, love, and watch bullfights in 1920s Paris and Spain. The novel that defined the Lost Generation.
Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: love and war on the Italian front. A masterpiece of spare prose and devastating emotion.
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls: an American dynamiter's final mission in the Spanish Civil War. Love, duty, and sacrifice in seventy-two hours.