Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961)
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• 1899-1961
• Oak Park, Illinois
• Second child in a family of six
• Hunting and fishing
Young Hemingway fishing in Michigan in 1904
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• Marriage • Paris, France • Travel Europe
• In Our Time • TRihseesSun Also
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Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Hemingway in Switzerland, 1922
Nobel Prize Winner in 1954 To avoid the use of adjectives , esp. such
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Having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric, I wish to thank the administrators of the generosity of Alfred Nobel for this Prize.
extravagant ones as splendid, gorgeous, grand, magnificent etc. Attained the preferences for short sentences, short first paragraphs and vigorous English The Sun Also Rises (1926) Jake Barnes Robert Cohn Brett Ashley
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• Reporter in the Kansas City Star newspaper
• Red Cross volunteer
• Wounded
• Decorated by the Italian government
Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer in Italy, 1918
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Spanish Civil War & World War
The Pulitzer Prize in 1953
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
• Commit Suicide in • 1961
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❖ In Our Time 《在我们的时代里》 1925 ❖ The Sun Also Rises 《太阳照样升起》 1926 ❖ A Farewell To Arms 《永别了，武器》1929 ❖ For Whom the Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
➢ Published first in Life magazine in 1952,
restored again his fame and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature ➢ An old Cuban fisherman and his battle ➢ with a giant marlin-- a representation ➢ of life as a struggle against ➢ unconquerable natural forces
1940
❖ The Old Man and the Sea 《老人与海》1952
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• Men Without Women 《没有女人的男人》
• Green Hills of Africa 《非洲的青山》
• Across the River and Into the Trees《过河入
林》
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place《一个清洁、明亮的
地方》
• A Day's Wait 《一天的等待》
• Garden Of Eden 《伊甸园》
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro 《乞力马扎罗的雪》
• The Fifth Column《第五纵队》
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The
Killers
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In Our Time (1925)
➢ Hemingway's first book of stories ➢ The effect of war on a young man
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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The Sun Also Rises (1926)
The book was an immediate success. Young Americans in Europe after World
WarⅠ "The Lost Generation“--a group of
wandering, amusing, but aimless people, who are caught in the war and removed from the path of ordinary life.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940)
➢ A volunteer American guerrilla fighting in the Spanish Civil War
➢ Theme--Anti-fascism
➢ His dying convinces people that life is worth living and there are causes worth dying for