美国作家Ernest Hemingway.pptVIP

Ernest Hemingway Background Information Brief Introduction to one of his books A Farewell To Arms The writing style of Hemingway Summary Background Information Hemingway was born in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. His father was a physician, fond of hunting and fishing, who took young Ernest with him on his trips. Hemingway’s style of living as an adult and the fact that his books abound in sports terms are partly traceable to his early life. After graduation from the high school, Hemingway worked briefly as a journalist on the Kansas City Star, where he learned a great deal about exactness and style in reporting. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italy Army. Serving at the front, he was badly wounded and was decorated by the Italian Government. After he returned to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. The experience in World War I provided him with materials for many of his short stories and some of his novels, including The Sun Also Rises and A farewell to Arms. During the Spanish Civil War, he went to Spain as a journalist, strongly against the fascist forces of Franco. Three years later, he published one of his best novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1952, he published his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea. In 1954, he was awarded the highest prize a writer can receive, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Brief Introduction to A Farewell To Arms A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929. The novel is a tragic love story. Hemingway himself also ever said the novel to be his “Romeo and Juliet”. It is about the war experience and the love affairs of an American youth in Italy during World War I. While serving with the Italian ambulance service, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American, gets to know Catherine Barkley, a beautiful English nurse who looks after him afte