Ernest Hemingway

An American author.

A Farewell to Arms

WWI ambulance driver Lieutenant Frederic Henry loves English nurse Catherine Barkley, who becomes pregnant. Henry deserts after Caporetto in Italy and they go to Switzerland, where she dies

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Spanish Civil War: American professor Robert Jordan assigned by Pablo and Pilar to blow up a bridge. Jordan loves Maria for three days. Jordan carries out mission but is left to die. title from Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

The Sun Also Rises

Lost Generation 1925 France: journalist Jake Barnes narrates. Lady Brett Ashley is divorcing and may love Jake but plans to marry Michael Campbell and has affair with Spanish bullfighter Pedro Romero in Pamplona. others include Greek Bill Gorton and American-Jewish writer Robert Cohn

In Our Time

short stories about Nick Adams, including Indian Camp and Big Two-Hearted River

Men Without Women

short stories including The Killers [Nick Adams warns Ole Anderson that two hired gunmen from city are coming to kill him], The Undefeated, Fifty Grand, Hills Like White Elephants, A Simple Inquiry

The Old Man and the Sea

Cuban fisherman Santiago catches marlin on 85th day but it is slowly eaten by sharks on way home

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

English guide Wilson saves Macombers from lion on African safari. next day Macomber fights wild buffalo but wife shoots him

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

writer Harry goes on African safari to “work fat off his mind” but gets gangrene, sees vision of a frozen leopard, and dies

To Have and Have Not

Harry Morgan smuggles Chinese and liquor in Key West during Depression and is shot