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A Life in Words: The Essential Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most influential writers in American literary history. Nobel laureate, war correspondent, expatriate in 1920s Paris -- Hemingway's stripped-down prose style, the famous iceberg theory, and his unflinching portrait of courage and loss changed fiction forever. This challenge collects the most essential Ernest Hemingway books: the jazz-age wandering of The Sun Also Rises, the wartime heartbreak of A Farewell to Arms, the quiet devastation of The Old Man and the Sea, and the Paris memoir that defined an era. Seven works that show exactly why Hemingway's voice remains one of the most imitated in all of literature.