... severely injured by an Australian mortar shell. After eventually healing and serving and helping for the rest of his time, he was awarded an Italian Silver Medal for his perseverance even though being wounded. (www.lostgeneration.com)-(4) Being inspired by his wounding, he became inspired to write a novel called A Farewell to Arms. (www.lostgeneration.com) (4) Next, came the story, Soldier's Home that discusses the feelings of ... .com)-(7) Between 1925 and 1929, Hemingway produced some of his most important pieces of writing including In Our Time (1925), The Sun Also Rises (1926), Men W...

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... on the Kansas City Star. He never attended college. Ernest only stayed at the Star for about six months. Unable to enlist in the armed forces, due to an eyesight problem, Ernest volunteered to drive ambulances for the American Red Cross in Italy. During his time in Italy, Hemingway was seriously wounded ... hospital, Ernest fell in love with a nurse, but their love affair came to an immediate end, when she walked out on him, for an Italian officer. Later, he used some of these experiences in his novel A Farewell to Arms. Despite his broken love affair with the beautiful nurse, Ernest marr...

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... no means wealthy; they lived in a small flat that lacked running water. Hemingway's foreign correspondent position was part-time and piecemeal. This made life financially difficult for the couple, but provided Hemingway with the spare time to write poems, vignettes, and sketches. Unfortunately, this very early body of writing was lost, apparently stolen while he was on a train trip in France. In ... West, Florida, where he established a residence that would serve as his home base until 1939. In 1929, Hemingway drew upon his World War one experiences for his second novel, A Farewell to A...

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