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THE NICK ADAMS STORIES

by: Ernest Hemingway

The famous “Nick Adams” stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent — a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway’s life. All color; 6×8 inches, 272 pgs.

0-684-16940-1
978-0-684-16940-8
Softcover
02-14-1981
Literature, History & Humor

$17.00

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hemingway
did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961.

BIOGRAPHY
Ernest Hemingway
ranks as the most famous of twentieth-century American writers; like Mark Twain, Hemingway is one of those rare authors most people know about, whether they have read him or not. The difference is that Twain, with his white suit, ubiquitous cigar, and easy wit, survives in the public imagination as a basically, lovable figure, while the deeply imprinted image of Hemingway as rugged and macho has been much less universally admired, for all his fame. Hemingway has been regarded less as a writer dedicated to his craft than as a man of action who happened to be afflicted with genius. When he won the Nobel Prize in 1954, Time magazine reported the news under Heroes rather than Books and went on to describe the author as “a globe-trotting expert on bullfights, booze, women, wars, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and courage.” Hemingway did in fact address all those subjects in his books, and he acquired his expertise through well-reported acts of participation as well as of observation; by going to all the wars of his time, hunting and fishing for great beasts, marrying four times, occasionally getting into fistfights, drinking too much, and becoming, in the end, a worldwide celebrity recognizable for his signature beard and challenging physical pursuits.

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ISBN: 0-684-16940-1
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Publish Date: 02-14-1981

“THE NICK ADAMS STORIES”

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