Contents:
  • Biography of Ernest Hemingway
  • pt. 1. Plot summary of A farewell to arms
  • List of characters in A farewell to arms
  • Critical views on A farewell to arms
  • Wirt Williams on choice and action
  • Mark Spilka on Frederic's feminine side
  • Paul Smith on Hemingway's romantic impulse and sports imagery
  • James Phelan on the voice of the narrator
  • Robert W. Lewis on the manner of Hemingway's writing
  • Robert W. Lewis on lying and language
  • Michael Reynolds on Catherine and Pauline
  • Michael Reynolds on views of the novel's ending
  • pt. 2. Plot summary of The sun also rises
  • List of characters in The sun also rises
  • Critical views on The sun also rises
  • Earl Rovit and Gerry Brenner on Jake's code of living
  • Robert Casillo on the ostracism of Robert Cohn
  • Mary Ann C. Curtis on Hemingway's reference to The song of Roland
  • Thomas Strychacz on Jake as observer
  • Peter Griffin on the models for Jake and Brett
  • Kathleen Morgan on Brett and Helen of Troy
  • Doris A. Helbig on interpreting through language
  • Leonard J. Leff on Hemingway and his publisher
  • pt. 3. Plot summary of The old man and the sea
  • List of characters in The old man and the sea
  • Critical views on The old man and the sea
  • A.E. Hotchner on Hemingway in Havana
  • Jed Kiley on reading the novel
  • Frank M. Laurence on the novel as a movie
  • Wirt Williams on tragic elements of the novel
  • John Raeburn on the novel's reception
  • Earl Rovit and Gerry Brenner on allegorical elements of the novel
  • Gerry Brenner on fable and fantasy
  • Gerry Brenner on Santiago and arm wrestling.