Table of Contents

1. At the beginning: 'Indian Camp'; 2. A second will: In our Time and in our time; 3. The end of pleasure: The Sun Also Rises; 4. False surmise: A Farewell to Arms; 5. Making a wound: A Farewell to Arms and 'Now I Lay Me'; 6. Awkwardness and appreciation: Death in the Afternoon; 7. Hunting shame: Green Hills of Africa; 8. Empathy and candor: 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'; 9. Taking time: For Whom the Bell Tolls; 10. Forgiveness: For Whom the Bell Tolls; 11. Befriending: The Old Man and the Sea; 12. Replacement and remorse: The Garden of Eden and A Moveable Feast; 13. How to end it: The Garden of Eden and A Moveable Feast.

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This reassessment of Hemingway's career recovers the soul of his work, revealing him as a multifaceted writer rather than a static icon.

About the Author

David Wyatt is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. His books include Prodigal Sons: A Study in Authorship and Authority (1980), The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California (Cambridge, 1986), Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation (Cambridge, 1993), and When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968 (2014). Wyatt's essays have appeared in American Literature, The Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review and South Atlantic Quarterly.