The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect introduction to his extensive writing. The collection includes the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from his three greatest works of fiction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls; twenty-five complete short stories; and the breathtaking epilogue to Death in the Afternoon.

'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian

About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Reviews
An excellent story-teller, intense and skillful * Daily Telegraph *
He can perform prodigies. He can fascinate us by pure evocation, by the tensity of the situation * Times Literary Supplement *
Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality * Guardian *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099460978
Author Ernest Hemingway
Format Paperback
Page Count 528
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 36mm