Ernest Hemingway wrote novels and short stories known for spare prose, restrained dialogue and characters whose emotions are often conveyed through action rather than explanation. The Sun Also Rises follows American and British expatriates travelling from Paris to Spain, while A Farewell to Arms centres on an American ambulance driver serving on the Italian front during the First World War. In The Old Man and the Sea, an ageing Cuban fisherman struggles to land a giant marlin far from shore. War, travel, sport, work and endurance recur across Hemingway's fiction, but the books are usually more interested in how characters behave under pressure than in elaborate plots. His work belongs to twentieth-century literary fiction and modern classics, with a direct style that has points of comparison with writers such as John Steinbeck and Raymond Carver. Read more Less
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