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    American literature began in the 17th century with works by early English colonists describing their experiences building settlements. Some of the most famous early American authors include Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mark Twain. Modern American literature is represented by authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most renowned American writers of the 20th century. He is known for works like "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and the short story "The Old Man and the Sea", for which he won the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had a distinctive writing style and often wrote about courage

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    American literature began in the 17th century with works by early English colonists describing their experiences building settlements. Some of the most famous early American authors include Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mark Twain. Modern American literature is represented by authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most renowned American writers of the 20th century. He is known for works like "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and the short story "The Old Man and the Sea", for which he won the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had a distinctive writing style and often wrote about courage

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    American literature began in the 17th century with works by early English colonists describing their experiences building settlements. Some of the most famous early American authors include Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mark Twain. Modern American literature is represented by authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most renowned American writers of the 20th century. He is known for works like "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and the short story "The Old Man and the Sea", for which he won the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had a distinctive writing style and often wrote about courage

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    American Literature
    American literature began after the arrival of the first English colonists to America in the 17th
    century. The first literary works deal with the problems connected with building the
    settlements and reflect the philosophy, ideas and views of the settlers. Later they started to
    write fiction, too. The most beloved American literary works include books by Jack London,
    James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Ernest Thompson Seton, Bret Harte and others telling
    stories from nature or about Indians, gold-diggers etc. Another famous man, Edgar Allan Poe,
    is the founder of thrillers and horrors.
    The best known American dramatists include Eugene ONeil, Tennesee Williams, Arthur
    Miller, the best known poets include Walt Whitman, Emilly Dickinson or some of the
    beatniks.
    Modern American literature is represented especially by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, John
    Steinbeck, Ernest Hemongway, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Bernard Malamud.
    I also want to speak of some recent American authors, e.g. Jack Kerouac, a beatnik, who
    became famous through his novels of the road, e.g. On the road, or Ray Bradbury and his
    stories, Joseph Heller whose Catch 22 we could see at the cinema, too or Arthur Hailey, who
    was born in England and lives in Canada but whose books all of them bestsellers are
    inspired by the life style in the USA.
    But culture is not only literature, I would like to mention, although very briefly, some of the
    best known English painters Thomas Gainsborough, William Turner, John Constable,
    William Hogarth. I could talk about the galleries in London, for instance about the National
    Gallery.
    Ernest Hemingway
    Ernest Hemingway was one of the best-known American writers. He was born in 1899 in
    Illinois, he lived in the USA, in Paris and Cuba. He made a member of hunting trips to Africa
    and he traveled all his life. He was a newspaper reporter and that is why he was deeply
    interested in public events. He used to take part in many public events. In World War I he
    served in an ambulance group, during the Spanish Civil War he stayed in Spain and reported
    on it. He was keen on hunting trips so he has a great respect for courage. His brave characters
    do not always survive but they live their lives to the fullest.
    Hemingway belonged to a group of American intellectuals who called themselves the lost
    generation. They felt that having lived through one disaster the war they could expect
    another, still worse, catastrophe.
    He was verbally gifted and he developed a striking style, which was simple bet very
    emotional. His style of writing contributed to the international popularity of his fiction. His
    interest in hunting, fishing and bull-fighting is reflected in his heroes. First Hemingway won
    popularity with Fiesta which was published in American under the title The Sun Also
    Rises. Hemingways best books are A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls (these
    are novels) and short story The Old Man and the Sea. In A Farewell to Arms Hemingway
    shows the charming and moving love of an American lieutenant in the Italian Ambulance

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    Service and an English nurse. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a psychological picture of the
    Spanish Civil War. The main character of this novel is Robert Jordan. He is a sapable
    American who come to the guerilla group to help them destroy a strategically important
    bridge. Here he meets a girl, Mary, and falls in love with her. Robertfinds he is nothing alone
    and death means nothing. The fourth day Robert succeeds in blowing the bridge up but he is
    badly hurt and cannot go on with the group. He knows he is going to die. In the end he
    realizes what a beautiful place the world really is and how much it is worth fighting for.
    In the short story The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway shows the fight between nature and
    man. The main character of the story is Santiago, a poor old Cuban fisherman who used to go
    fishing with a boy as a helper. But for forty days they had bad luck and caught no fish. So the
    boy was ordered by his parents to go in another luckier boat. Santiago was then forces to go
    out to sea alone and each day he used to return with his boat empty. Finally, after 84 days of
    bad luck, Santiago went out father than usual and succeeded in catching a very big fish. After
    a long fight he killed it and fastened it to the boat. Soon, however the first shark appeared
    because he caught the smell of the fishs blood in the sea. Santiago prepared his harpoon.
    When the shark hit the fish, Santiago killed it but at the same time lost his harpoon. Then he
    lashed his knife to the end of one of the oars and when the next shark come, he used it as a
    weapon. Unfortunatelly when he killed the fourth shark, the knife broke and Santiago was left
    weaponless. Through both his hands were bleeding, he still went on fighting the sharks as best
    he could by killing them with a piece of an old broken oar. But his fight was in vain, when he
    reached his homeport, there was nothing left of the fish but only its skeleton.
    Santiago is typical character in Hemingways novels. He knows he will be beaten in his battle
    against the forces of the nature but he fights on even when he knows that the fight is useless.
    Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for this short story in 1954.
    During the last years of his life Hemingway suffered from a depression, which led to his
    suicide in 1961. Some of his work was published posthumously, e.g. A Moveable Feast,
    Islands in the Stream.

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