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Hemingway as Studied

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OVERVIEW

One of the most common misconceptions about Ernest Hemingway is to assume that as only a high-school graduate, he was not particularly well educated or well read. True, he never attended a university, but he educated himself far beyond what he would have learned in the classroom. By the time he died, his library in Cuba held more than eight thousand volumes. He was well read on European history, military tactics, World War I, the American Civil War, the American West, Italy, Spain, East Africa, fishing and hunting, and contemporary writers. He spoke with varying degrees of fluency French, Spanish, Italian, German, and a little Swahili. He was an astute analyst of politics, an avid and continuous traveler, a reader of poetry, and was well schooled in classical music. His public image of outdoorsman, brawler, and...

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1. Introduction
2. Biography
3. Chronology Of Events In Ernest Hemingway’s Life
4. About Ernest Hemingway
5. Hemingway at Work
6. Hemingway’s Eras
7. Hemingway’s Works
8. Hemingway on Hemingway
9. Hemingway as Studied
10. Frequently Asked Questions About Ernest Hemingway
11. Bibliography
12. Copyright

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. American Literature