American · 1899–1961
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) developed a prose style so stripped of ornamentation that it became the template for twentieth-century American fiction: short declarative sentences, meaning carried by what is not said. Both The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms are available in warpread.app. His style is uniquely suited to speed reading — the sentences are short, the paragraphs are short, and the emotional weight accumulates through repetition rather than density.
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A group of expatriate Americans and a British socialite chase bullfights and drink their way through Paris and Pamplona in the aftermath of the First World War. Jake Barnes loves Brett Ashley; Brett loves Jake; neither can have the other in the way they want. Hemingway's first novel, and still his best diagnosis of what war does to desire.
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