| Description |
5 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge edition of the letters of Ernest Hemingway
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| Note |
Editors vary. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
The first volume encompasses his youth, his experience in World War I, and his arrival in Paris. The letters reveal a more complex person than Hemingway's tough-guy public persona would suggest: devoted son, affectionate brother, infatuated lover, adoring husband, spirited friend, and disciplined writer. Unguarded and never intended for publication, the letters record experiences that inspired his art, afford insight into his creative process, and express his candid assessments of his own work and that of his contemporaries. The letters present immediate accounts of events and relationships that profoundly shaped his life and work. A detailed introduction, notes, chronology, illustrations, and index are included. |
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Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s that he would epitomize for posterity. We witness the development of his friendships and associations with Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, and John Dos Passos. Striving to 'make it new, ' he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. In this period, Hemingway publishes his first three books, including In Our Time (1925), and discovers a lifelong passion for Spain and the bullfight, quickly transforming his experiences into fiction as The Sun Also Rises (1926). The volume features many previously unpublished letters and a humorous sketch that was rejected by Vanity Fair. |
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Volume 3 (1926-1929) featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Scribner's, nurtured the young Hemingway's talent, accepting his satirical novel Torrents of Spring (1926) in order to publish what would become a signature work of the twentieth century: The Sun Also Rises (1926). By early 1929 Hemingway had completed A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's letters of this period also reflect landmark events in his personal life, including the dissolution of his first marriage, his remarriage, the birth of his second son, and the suicide of his father. As the volume ends in April 1929, Hemingway is setting off from Key West to return to Paris and standing on the cusp of celebrity as one of the major writers of his time. |
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Volume 4 (1929-1931) featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following the publication of A Farewell to Arms. Breaking new artistic ground in 1930, Hemingway embarks upon his first and greatest non-fiction work, his treatise on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon. Hemingway, now a professional writer, demonstrates a growing awareness of the literary marketplace, successfully negotiating with publishers and agents and responding to fan mail. In private we see Hemingway's generosity as he provides for his family, offers support to friends and colleagues, orchestrates fishing and hunting expeditions, and sees the birth of his third son. Despite suffering injuries to his writing arm in a car accident in November 1930, Hemingway writes and dictates an avalanche of letters that record in colorful and eloquent prose the eventful life and achievements of an enormous personality. |
| Contents |
v.1. 1907-1922 -- v.2. 1923-1925 -- v.3 1926-1929 -- v.4 1929-1931 -- v.5 1932-1934. |
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V.1. 1907-1922 / edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon. -- v. 2. 1923-1925 / edited by Sandra Spanier, Albert J. DeFazio III and Robert W. Trogdon -- v. 3. 1926-1929 / edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, Robert W. Trogdon -- v. 4. 1929-1931 / edited by Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel -- v. 5. 1932-1934 / edited by Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel. |
| Subject |
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Correspondence.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Spanier, Sandra Whipple, 1951-
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Trogdon, Robert W.
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DeFazio, Albert J.
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Mandel, Miriam B.
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Sanderson, Rena.
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Kennedy, J. Gerald.
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| ISBN |
9780521897334 (v.1) |
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9780521897341 (v.2) |
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9780521897358 (v.3) |
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9780521897365 (v.4) |
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9780521897372 (v.5) |
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