April 12, 2024
Franklin Library: Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
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Franklin Library: Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," Frontispiece portrait of Ernest Hemingway, one of the PULITZER PRIZE series, published in 1975. Bound in a Most Handsome blue Moroccan cowhide, the book has French moire silk endleaves, hubbed spines, satin bookmarker, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Hemingway was born in 1899 in OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, to a medical doctor and a musician mother. "Ernie" attended the local high school, writing stories for the newspaper. Hemingway did not attend college, opting to work for the Kansas City Star and later the Toronto newspapers. Hemingway married Hadley Richardson and with her "trust fund," the couple moved to Paris w Hemingway worked as a "news correspondent" and wrote novels. In Paris, Hemingway became part of the "expatriates"----along with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound. Gertrude Stein told Ernest that he and the others were part of the "lost generation." Hemingway wrote "The Sun Also Rises" in 1926, followed by "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929. Hemingway divorced Hadley and married PAULINE PFEIFFER, daughter of an enormously wealthy Arkansas planter---the Pfeiffers owned 65,000 acres of rich ARKANSAS Delta land. Indeed, Pauline's Uncle
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