The 10 best Ernest Hemingway books, according to Goodreads readers

  • Date: 22-Jan-2022
  • Source: Business Insider
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The 10 best Ernest Hemingway books, according to Goodreads readers

When you think of Ernest Hemingway — journalist, novelist, bullfighting aficionado — you probably think of the lean, understated prose that defines many American classics. The opening line of the book that helped him win the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, " ," reads as a status report: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." Nicknamed the "iceberg theory" by Hemingway, much of his novels' meatiness (their nuances, their themes) lies looming beneath the surface. (For a man who wrote that he gets over writer's block by sitting down and writing the truest sentence that you know," this isn't altogether surprising.) If you're looking for where to start in the Hemingway canon, know that you can't really go wrong. After reading the manuscript for " ," the famed editor Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway to say, "if the function of a writer is to reveal reality, no one ever so completely performed it." And William Faulkner, often considered one of the best American writers of all time, wrote that "time may show ["The Old Man and the Sea"] to be the best