April 12, 2024
Ernest Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway: Short Stories
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Easton Press: Ernest Hemingway: In Our Time Easton Press FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Ernest Hemingway's "In Our Time," a Limited edition, published in 1990. Bound in a Most Handsome Moroccan cowhide, the book has French moire silk endleaves, satin book marker, hubbed spines, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges--in near FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, was born in OAK PARK, ILLINOIS. His father was a doctor and his mother was a musician who tried to teach "Ernie" to love art and music. When Hemingway finished high school, he took a job as a reporter for the KANSAS CITY STAR whose style manuel called for "short sentences" and "short first paragraphs." Reporters were urged to "Be positive, not negative." Hemingway enlisted in WORLD WAR I as an ambulance driver. He was badly wounded and spent several months in a hospital in Italy, providing much of the material for "A Farewell to Arms." Ernest married Hadley Richardson and they became parents to "Bumby" whose 'godmother' was GERTRUDE STEIN. Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway that he and his generation of 'expatriate writers' were a "lost generation." Ernest and Hadley were living in PARIS, FRANCE, between the two world wars when Ernest met and fell in love with PAULINE PFEIFFER. Ms. Pheiffer was a recent graduate of the University of Missouri School
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