Biography of Ernest Hemingway --
[pt. 1]. Plot summary of A farewell to arms --
List of characters in A farewell to arms --
Critical views on A farewell to arms: --
Wirt Williams on choice and action --
Mark Spilka on Frederic's feminine side --
Paul Smith on Hemingway's romantic impulse and sports imagery --
James Phelan on the voice of the narrator --
Robert W. Lewis on the manner of Hemingway's writing --
Robert W. Lewis on lying and language --
Michael Reynolds on Catherine and Pauline --
Michael Reynolds on views of the novel's ending --
[pt. 2]. Plot summary of The sun also rises --
List of characters in The sun also rises --
Critical views on The sun also rises: --
Earl Rovit and Gerry Brenner on Jake's code of living --
Robert Casillo on the ostracism of Robert Cohn --
Mary Ann C. Curtis on Hemingway's reference to The song of Roland --
Thomas Strychacz on Jake as observer --
Peter Griffin on the models for Jake and Brett --
Kathleen Morgan on Brett and Helen of Troy --
Doris A. Helbig on interpreting through language --
Leonard J. Leff on Hemingway and his publisher --
[pt. 3]. Plot summary of The old man and the sea --
List of characters in The old man and the sea --
Critical views on The old man and the sea: --
A.E. Hotchner on Hemingway in Havana --
Jed Kiley on reading the novel --
Frank M. Laurence on the novel as a movie --
Wirt Williams on tragic elements of the novel --
John Raeburn on the novel's reception --
Earl Rovit and Gerry Brenner on allegorical elements of the novel --
Gerry Brenner on fable and fantasy --
Gerry Brenner on Santiago and arm wrestling.
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Hemingway: gauge of morale / Edmund Wilson
Ernest Hemingway / Robert Penn Warren
The way it was / Carlos Baker
Hemingway's extraordinary actuality / John Hollander
Of tyros and tutors / Earl Rovit and Gerry Brenner
Of bulls and men / Edward F. Stanton
A retrospective epilogue: on the importance of being androgynous / Mark Spilka
Reflection vs. daydream: two types of the implied reader in Hemingway's fiction / Hubert Zapf
On psychic retrenchment in Hemingway / Earl Rovit
The disabled able body and white heteromasculinity / Debra A. Moddelmog
Santiago and the eternal feminine; gendering La mar and The old man and the sea / Susan F. Beegel.