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- Youth (1903) and Typhoon (1902), both authored by Joseph Conrad, are maritime tales that share captivating similarities with Hemingway’s work. It is believed that Hemingway, who read all of Conrad's works during his time in Paris and Toronto in the 1920s, may have consciously or unconsciously adopted the “central strategy” of Youth when he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) was Hemingway’s last critically acclaimed novel before The Old Man and the Sea. It is also the only previous Hemingway novel where a Hispanic setting is prominently featured. The story follows Robert Jordan, an American fighting against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, as he strives to uphold his political and personal ideals without becoming overly partisan.
- Islands in the Stream, published posthumously in 1970, is the book that, as edited, was originally intended by Hemingway to include The Old Man and the Sea as its fourth part. The initial three sections were titled “The Sea When Young,” “The Sea When Absent,” and “The Sea in Being.”
- The Nick Adams Stories (1972) is a collection of all Hemingway’s short stories, along with a few story fragments, featuring the recurring character Nick Adams. These stories span from Nick's first appearance as a young boy in the early 1920s to his final appearance as an adult and father in 1933. Although written and published at various times throughout Hemingway’s career, they are organized here by Hemingway scholar Philip Young to depict the progression of Nick’s life.
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