Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author, journalist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, known for his unique, concise writing style that profoundly influenced 20th-century literature. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and as a young man he volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, an experience that shaped many of his themes.
His first significant works were the collection In Our Time (1925) and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926), which became the voice of a "lost generation". He solidified his fame with the novels A Farewell to Arms (1929), inspired by his wartime experiences, and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), which deals with the Spanish Civil War.
His best-known work is The Old Man and the Sea (1952), a moving story about a fisherman and his fight with a big fish, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and earned the Nobel Prize. Hemingway's style – simple, to the point, without unnecessary embellishments – became a model for many writers.
He was also an avid traveler, hunter, and war correspondent, living all over the world: in Paris, Spain, Cuba, and Africa. Unfortunately, his final years were marked by depression and illness, and his life ended tragically in suicide.
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Eine Sammlung von 14 Kurzgeschichten von Hemingway aus dem Jahr 1927. Die Geschichten schildern Männer in Situationen der Einsamkeit, des Krieges, des sportlichen Wettkampfs, von Liebeskonflikten und der Konfrontation mit dem Tod, darunter die berühmte Ge
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„Haben und Nichthaben“ (1937) erzählt die Geschichte von Harry Morgan, der während der Weltwirtschaftskrise mit Schmuggel und illegalen Geschäften überlebt. Der Roman stellt die Unterschiede zwischen Arm und Reich scharf dar und schildert den Kampf ums Üb
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„Über den Fluss und in den Wald“ (1950) ist ein Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Ernest Hemingway. Der Titel leitet sich von den letzten Worten des konföderierten Generals Thomas J. „Stonewall“ Jackson aus dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ab.
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„Über den Fluss und in den Wald“ (1950) ist ein Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Ernest Hemingway. Der Titel leitet sich von den letzten Worten des konföderierten Generals Thomas J. „Stonewall“ Jackson aus dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ab.
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Over the River and Into the Woods (1950) is a novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. The title is derived from the last words of American Civil War Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
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The last days in the life of an infantry colonel in the US Army, which he spends in Venice, with friends and his young girlfriend, before dying of a heart attack in his car on the way home.
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The Old Man and the Sea is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, an American writer of the 20th century. The novel was written in Cuba in 1951 and was published in 1952.
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The Old Man and the Sea is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, an American writer of the 20th century. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 for the novel.
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The Old Man and the Sea possesses the artistic power of a biblical story or parable.