Презентация на тему на английском языке к уроку в 9 классе

American writers. The legend which developed around his impressive

personality was that of a man of action, a devil-may-care adventurer, a brave war correspondent, an amateur boxer, a big-game hunter and deep-sea fisherman, the victim of three car accidents and two plane crashes, a man of four wives and many loves, but above all a brilliant writer of stories and novels.

Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor who

initiated the boy into the outdoor life of hunting, camping, and fishing. While at school, Hemingway played football and wrote articles for the school newspaper.

the World War I, Hemingway left home and schooling

to become a reporter for "The Kansas City Star". He wanted to enlist for the war but was rejected because of an eye injury from football. Finally he managed to go to Europe as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. He joined the Italian army and was seriously wounded.

adventurous life provided the background for his many short

stories and novels.
He achieved success with "A Farewell to Arms", the story of a love affair between an American lieutenant and an English nurse during the World War I.

the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and wrote

another successful novel of war, love and death. It was "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

was a war correspondent first in China and then

in Europe. He fought in France and helped to liberate Paris.

years Hemingway lived mostly in Cuba where his passion

for deep-sea fishing provided the background for "The Old Man and the Sea". He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

the inevitable physical aging, Hemingway committed suicide, as his

father had done under similar circumstances.

Ernest Hemingway