You may hear the name Hemingway and suddenly get intimidated if you have never read him before, thinking that someone who is so highly regarded in the world of literature must of course have written works that were terribly difficult to read. But what many people do not realize about Ernest Hemingway is that one of the main things that made him such a grand figure in the landscape of literature is the fact that he was one of the first writers to make his work truly accessible to all readers, which means that – even today – just about anyone can read Ernest Hemingway and thoroughly enjoy him.
If you are wanting to get to know Ernest Hemingway as a writer, the best place to start is with his second published novel, @@AMAZONTEXT;0743297334;The Sun Also Rises@@; this story follows a group of American expatriates in Paris following World War I, watching them as they simply live their lives – and although this book has nothing “thrilling” about it, it was this book that brought Paris back to the forefront during the 1920s. Hemingway did everything from fighting bulls to hunting in Africa to boxing to participating in every war he could find, and his persona was tied to his adventurous spirit; after participating as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway wrote the novel @@AMAZONTEXT;0684830485;For Whom The Bell Tolls@@ – and since its publication in 1940, this novel has grown into one of the most important novels of the 20th century. After the publication of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway’s stock with the reading public began to fall, as his subsequent works were not as highly regarded, but all of this changed in 1954 when Hemingway published a small novella called @@AMAZONTEXT;0684801221;The Old Man and the Sea@@ – which won Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize, and encouraged the Nobel Prize committee to give him the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature! You may actually want to read all of Hemingway’s works after you have finished reading these three works – but if you are looking for an introduction to Hemingway, these three works are the perfect way to begin!
