<p><i>The Essential Hemingway</i> is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of <i>Fiesta</i>, Hemingway''s first major novel; long extracts from three of his greatest works of fiction, <i>A Farewell to Arms</i>, <i>To Have and Have Not </i>and <i>For Whom the Bell Tolls</i>; twenty-five complete short stories; and the breathtaking Epilogue to <i>Death in the Afternoon</i>.<br><br>''He is one of those who, honestly and undauntedly, reproduces the genuine features of the hard countenance of the age'' Nobel Prize Citation</p>