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This 1952 novella tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who hooks a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream.
Difficulty: Easy- A Farewell to Arms
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Sun Also Rises
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
This 17th-century English poet wrote the meditation from which Hemingway took the title For Whom the Bell Tolls, featuring the famous line about no man being an island.
Difficulty: Medium- John Milton
- John Donne
- Andrew Marvell
- George Herbert
This literary scholar edited the restored version of The Garden of Eden published by Scribner in 2008, restoring over 200,000 words cut from the 1986 edition.
Difficulty: Hard- Tom Jenks
- Charles Scribner III
- A.E. Hotchner
- Patrick Hemingway
This European city served as the setting for much of The Sun Also Rises and was home to Hemingway during the 1920s expatriate Lost Generation era.
Difficulty: Easy- Paris
- London
- Rome
- Madrid
This legendary Scribner's editor, known for his work with Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became Hemingway's editor and close friend beginning in 1926.
Difficulty: Medium- Robert Giroux
- Maxwell Perkins
- Bennett Cerf
- Alfred A. Knopf
This Nick Adams story, set in a hospital, features Nick lying awake unable to sleep while remembering fishing and praying in order not to think about the war.
Difficulty: Hard- In Another Country
- Now I Lay Me
- A Way You'll Never Be
- Soldier's Home
This annual Spanish festival, featuring the running of the bulls in Pamplona, is central to the plot of The Sun Also Rises.
Difficulty: Easy- La Tomatina
- Carnival of Cadiz
- Las Fallas
- San Fermin
In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago repeatedly dreams of this scene from his younger days as a sailor, symbolizing strength and youth.
Difficulty: Medium- Ships sailing to Africa
- His first great catch
- His wife on the beach
- Lions playing on African beaches
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