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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
~Ernest Hemingway~

Look at the number of books Ernest Hemingway authored and the things that have been done with them!!!

I think he lived his quote:

“Man is not made for defeat.”
~Ernest Hemingway~

Novels

(1926) The Torrents of Spring
(1926) The Sun Also Rises
(1929) A Farewell to Arms
(1937) To Have and Have Not
(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1950) Across the River and Into the Trees
(1952) The Old Man and the Sea
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1986) The Garden of Eden
(1999) True at First Light

Collections

(1923) Three Stories and Ten Poems
(1925) In Our Time
(1927) Men Without Women
(1933) Winner Take Nothing
(1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1938) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1987) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
(1995) Everyman’s Library: The Collected Stories

Nonfiction

(1932) Death in the Afternoon
(1935) Green Hills of Africa
(1962) Hemingway, The Wild Years
(1964) A Moveable Feast
(1967) By-Line: Ernest Hemingway
(1970) Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter
(1981) Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters
(1985) The Dangerous Summer
(1985) Dateline: Toronto
(1999) Hemingway on Writing
(2000) Hemingway on Fishing
(2003) Hemingway on Hunting
(2003) Hemingway on War
(2005) Under Kilimanjaro
(2008) Hemingway on Paris

Stage Plays

(1961) A Short Happy Life
(1967) The Hemingway Hero (working title was: Of Love and Death)

Adaptations

Television productions

(1958) Scouting on Two Continents, by Frederick Russell Burnham (not completed)
(1959) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1959) The Killers (CBS Buick Electra Playhouse)
(1960) The Fifth Column
(1960) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1960) The Gambler, The Nun and the Radio
(1960) After the Storm (not completed)

U.S./UK Film Adaptations

(1932) A Farewell to Arms (starring Gary Cooper)
(1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman)
(1944) To Have and Have Not (Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall)
(1946) The Killers (starring Burt Lancaster)
(1947) The Macomber Affair
(1950) The Breaking Point
(1952) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (starring Gregory Peck)
(1957) A Farewell to Arms (starring Rock Hudson)
(1957) The Sun Also Rises (starring Tyrone Power)
(1958) The Old Man and the Sea (starring Spencer Tracy)
(1962) Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
(1964) The Killers (starring Lee Marvin)
(1965) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1977) Islands in the Stream (starring George C. Scott)
(1984) The Sun Also Rises
(1990) The Old Man and the Sea (starring Anthony Quinn)
(1996) In Love and War (starring Chris O’Donnell)
(1999) The Old Man and the Sea
Source: Wikipedia

Are you impressed?

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing,
but always to stop when there was still something there
in the deep part of the well,
and let it refill at night
from the springs that fed it.”
~Ernest Hemingway~

What did he think about writing?

“There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
~Ernest Hemingway~

By now you might be thinking, “Did he have six toes like the title implies?” No. Normal cats have four toes and one dewclaw (thumb) on each front paw and four toes on each hind paw. Polydactyl cats may have as many as seven digits on front and/or hind paws. Polydactyl is most commonly found on the front paws only.

Ernest Hemingway was first given a six-toed cat by a ship’s captain and was a lover of polydactyls. When Hemingway died in 1961, his former home in Key West, Florida, became a museum and a home for his cats. It currently houses approximately fifty descendants of his cats (about half of which are polydactyl). Because of his love for these animals, Hemingway cat, or simply Hemingway, is a slang term which has come to describe polydactyls.

Click to see The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Click to see the Live CAM Feed of Ernest Hemingway Home and Cats


 

That was so interesting!

Ernest Hemingway put my feelings most adequately into words when he wrote:

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see
and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

Thank you Ernest Hemingway.

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  1. What a great blog..so much to see and read. Thanks for coming by and becoming a follower..I returned the favor! Hope you have a great day!

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  2. Well look at that! I just loved this post since I adore cats and all animals. Thanks for the interesting info. I'm off to check out my cats paws….LOL! 🙂

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  3. That is really inspirational.

    Hey, how did you know I have a "thing" for kitty paws. I love the velvety soft fur. And who can resist a kitty with 6 tootsies. Sweet things.

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  5. what a great post! I didn't realise the extent of his work! Those cat pics are sooo cute.

    Collette xx

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  7. One really does learn something new every day and your blog today is proof of that. I did not know all those things. I am going to show this to my dd today.

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  9. thanks so much for stopping by my blog..i was entranced immediately i visited you the first time..'course, i immediately followed your blog..there's so much to see and learn -like today, i must confess, i never realised the extent of Hemingway's work…
    not to mention ur disposition -sooo friendly..

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  11. I love Hemingway. I'd love to visit his home in the Keys. Maybe one day when I'm rich and famous, lol.

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  13. I loved this post…so interesting! I can tell you really love to write and you do it very well.

    BTW…I am rereading that post today…today HAS to be BETTER!

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  15. This was fabulouos! Thank you. I'm going to share your link on my facebook page. At the risk of being pushy, I would like to suggest that you add a link to your posts that would make that simple for us to do – perhaps an easy way to suggest it to twitter fans too? "-)

    It's always such a pleasure to visit with you.

    Hugs,
    Donna

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  21. I love the quote about what he thought of writing. So much talent- evident by his ability to make it look so easy!

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  22. I AM impressed!

    I've seen a program on tv about his home and his cats.

    I love cats and I'd really like to find a six toed one.

    Like this post.

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  23. Wow Ernest Hemingway was a busy man!! Very interesting!

    Thanks for the comment on my blog and my blogoversary present!!

    Jen

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  26. Wow! I had heard there were cats who had more toes, but I didn't know they called them Hemingway cats. How cool! 🙂 My cats are normal, boring cats… 😉

    Thanks for stopping by my blog and entering my first giveaway! Have a great day! 🙂

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