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"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of his name conjures up a host of images--a cub reporter chasi...

Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during the war he found life in the United States provincial a...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur and as the stylistic genius of the century. His perso...

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway - 1940 Introduction As a catalyst for classic literature, the Spanish Civil War is overshadowed by the great conflict that followed it, World War II. This is to be expected; World War II was global in scope,...

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerilla unit in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the...

It was not your typical V.F.W. reunion. First off, most of the war vets were Communists, either current or former, possibly Anarchists. (At least one could quote Bakunin.) Also, most of them had been spied on at some point by the F.B.I. Welcome to the...