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Ernest Hemingway In Key West
Brittany Smith, Joshua Rickett, Kinga Gartner, Tamyrn Taylor, Yadira Salez
Mr. ChandlerEng. 1 Honor - 4
Table of Contents
• Family• Books• Farewell to Arms• Death in the Afternoon• Winner take nothing• Home• Museum• Fun Facts
Family
• 1928: His second wife, Pauline, was pregnant, and gave birth to Patrick; Father commit suicide
• 1931: Pauline, gave birth to their second child, Gregory, but it Hemingway’s third child in all
Books• 1929: He finished “Farewell to
Arms”• 1932: He published “Death in the
Afternoon,” which was based on Spanish bullfighting
• 1933: He wrote “Winner Take Nothing,” that contained twelve short stories
Farewell To Arms (1929)
• Semi - Autobiographical written by Hemingway.
• Talks about events during the Italian campaigns during the first world war.
• Title taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
• Non-fiction account by Hemingway.
• About the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting.
• The book provides a look at the history and what Hemingway considers the magnificence of bullfighting.
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
• Hemingway’s 3rd collection of short stories
• Published 4 years after “Farewell to Arms”
Home
• 1851: Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker, built the house
• 1931: It then became Hemingway’s home, after being reinvented since it was in ruins
• The property was $8,000• Furniture represented in the home belonged
to Pauline as a collection of hers• They lived together, Hemingway, his wife,
and his two sons, from 1931 to 1940
Museum
• 1968: It was then claimed a U.S. National Historic Landmark
• Furniture inside the house were collected by Pauline
• Present: The cats at the museum are descendents of the original cats that lived with Hemingway. They are rare polydactyl's because they have extra toes
Fun Facts
• A sea captain gave Hemingway his first six-toed tomcat.
• Bricks in Hemingway’s house were shipped from Baltimore, Marlyand.
• One of the most famous writers that inhabited Key West.
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