LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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A Farewell to Arms
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Death in the Afternoon
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Old and the Sea is the final work of fiction by Hemingway to be published in his lifetime. The novel, published in 1952, served to restore readers’ confidence in Hemingway after the failure of his 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ernest Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), which were full of the existential disillusionment of the Lost Generation expatriates; For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), about the Spanish Civil War; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
Detailed explanation-4: -Hemingway’s writing style in The Old Man and the Sea and beyond, is concise, straightforward, and realistic, a departure from other writers of his time. Many have referred to this style as the iceberg theory, a simple style of writing that reveals minimal detail on the surface, with deeper meaning hiding below.