Selected Letters 1917-1961.

Hemingway, Ernest.

ISBN 10: 0684167654 / ISBN 13: 9780684167657

Published by Scribners, 1981

About this Item

A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and slight fading to the spine. Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker has gathered nearly 600 letters written by Hemingway to a wide variety of friends, enemies, editors, translators and the prominent writers of his time. These missives are both informative and enlightening and show the many sides of the most influential twentieth century American writer. Seller Inventory # 23601

Bibliographic Details

Title: Selected Letters 1917-1961.

Publisher: Scribners

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This first collection of Hemingway's personal correspondence reveals his multidimensional character, views on contemporaneous literary topics, and irrepressible opinions about friends, work, women, soldiers, politicians, and himself

About the Author:

Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961.