Is there a complete bibliography of Ernest Hemingway's work?
Three books, all out of print, come to mind:
Cohn, Louis Henry. A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Random House, 1931.
Hannerman, Audre. Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967.
___________. Supplement to Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975.
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Which Ernest Hemingway works were made into plays?
Appendix IV of Charles M. Oliver's Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work is titled "Film, Stage, Television, and Radio Adaptations of Hemingway's Works."
Oliver's book was published in 1999, so this should provide a relatively up-to-date listing.
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What are the basic abbreviations for Ernest Hemingway's works?
The abbreviations for the works of Ernest Hemingway are as follows:
TSOP = Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
iot = in our time (1924)
IOT = In Our Time (1925)
TOS = The Torrents of Spring (1926)
SAR = The Sun Also Rises (1926)
MWW = Men Without Women (1927)
AFTA = A Farewell to Arms (1929)
DIA = Death in the Afternoon (1932)
WTN = Winner Take Nothing (1933)
GHOA = Green Hills of Africa (1935)
THHN = To Have and Have Not (1937)
SS = The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1938)
TFC = The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938)
FWTBT = For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
MAW = Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time (1942)
ARIT = Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
OMATS = The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
MF = A Moveable Feast (1964)
BL = By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
IITS = Islands in the Stream (1970)
NAS = The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
SL = Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 (1981)
TDS = The Dangerous Summer (1985)
DT = Ernest Hemingway: Dateline Toronto (1985)
GOE = The Garden of Eden (1986)
CSS = The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Finca Vigía Edition) (1987)
CP = Ernest Hemingway: Complete Poems (1992)
TAFL = True at First Light (1999)
UK = Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
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Where can I find booknotes for Ernest Hemingway's major works?
Barron's Booknotes for Hemingway's four major novels can be found at PinkMonkey.com. Below are the direct links to the booknotes:
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
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Which of Ernest Hemingway's books have been banned?
The following information was found at a web site called "The File Room." The original source of the information is Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D.
by Anne Lyon Haight and Chandler B. Grannis (1978).
Description of incident
1929 Italy: "A Farewell to Arms" was banned because of its painfully accurate account of the Italian retreat from Caporetto.
1929 United States-Boston, MA: Five issues of Scriber's Magazine were prohibited because they contained the story of "A Farewell to Arms."
Robert Herrick attacked "A Farewell to Arms" in an article entitled "What Is Dirt?" in the November issue of Bookman.
1930 Boston MA: "The Sun Also Rises" was banned.
1933 Germany: Works burned in the Nazi bonfires.
1938 United States-Detroit, MI: "To Have and Have Not" was removed from public sale and from circulation in the public library, but preserved among works by "writers of standing." It was also barred from sale by the Prosecutor of Wayne County on complaint of Catholic organizations.
1939 Ireland: "A Farewell to Arms" banned.
1941 United States-New York, NY: When the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board recommended "For Whom the Bells Tolls" for the 1940 prize, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler said "I hope that you will reconsider before you ask the University to be associated with an award for work of this nature."
1953 Ireland: "The Sun also Rises" and "Across the River and into the Trees" were banned.
1956 South Africa-Johannesburg: "Across the River and into the Trees" was banned as "objectionable and obscene."
