Hemingway's Notable Works

Ernest Hemingway's writing is well known by many people, and even though, everyone may not be an avid reader, chances are that everyone has heard of Hemingway’s 1940, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. Not only is this story considered to be a one of Hemingway's best lyrical and dramatic non-poetry writing, even more so than his earlier works, but it is also his “…most ambitious novel”. This narrative is described as wonderful and clear.

According to Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works, his 1929, "A Farwell to Arms" closely relates to his own personal experience as an Italian Ambulance driver in the war. In fact, "Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works" says that, "Hemingway himself, claimed the account of Henry's wounding in this book was the most accurate version of his own wounding he had ever written." His woundings included a knee injury and shell fragments in his legs and body while serving in the Red Cross medical service, and then the Italian Army. Because he had been denied for active service in the U.S. infantry (due to eye problems), was the reason Hemingway chose to serve in the Italian Army. This experience gave Hemingway a backdrop to “A Farewell to Arms”.

After Hemingway's suicide, many of Hemingway's unpublished, as well as, unfinished works were published. Because of the Nobel Prize winning author’s accomplished writings, his approach to life, and along with Hemingway’s influential, twentieth-century writing style and emotional content has made him a well celebrated literary stylist.

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated." -Ernest Hemingway