Ernest Hemingway

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. “‘Fraid a Nothing”

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   Pages 1-11

3. Eighteen and Fear —and Agnes

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   Pages 12-18

4. “Dear Ernesto”

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   Pages 19-31

5. The Route to In Our Time: The Arrival

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   Pages 32-45

6. Of Babies and Books

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   Pages 46-55

7. Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway

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   Pages 56-65

8. Marriage in the Midst of Men Without Women

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   Pages 66-76

9. A Farewell to Arms

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   Pages 77-85

10. The Bullfight as Center

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    Pages 86-95

11. Hemingway as the Man in Charge

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    Pages 96-103

12. Esquire and Africa

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    Pages 104-111

13. Hemingway in the World

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    Pages 112-120

14. Martha Gellhorn and Spain

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    Pages 121-130

15. War in Europe and at Home

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    Pages 131-140

16. The Fourth Mrs. Hemingway

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    Pages 141-148

17. From Cuba to Italy

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    Pages 149-157

18. Old Men, Prizes, and Reports of Hemingway’s Death

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    Pages 158-164

19. Endings

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    Pages 165-173

20. Back Matter

    Pages 174-201

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Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.

• Africa
• bibliography
• death
• Europe
• history
• history of literature
• Italy
• knowledge
• Spain
• women

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Rockefeller awardee, and a resident at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Bunting Institute. She recently received the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service to American literature. Her 2013 A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present is her 53rd book. She has written two other books for this series, one on Ernest Hemingway and the other, in both 1999 and 2003, on Sylvia Plath. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing and pedagogy. Her publications include A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway (2000), William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism (2002), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism (2009).

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