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Originally Posted by rhadin
I'm going to disagree with The Old Man and the Sea choice. It is a good choice and should be read if you want to read Hemingway, but I think A Farewell to Arms or For Whom the Bell Tolls are better choices to discover not only the brilliance (or lack there of) of his writing, but his writing style. TOMS is really a novelette and written near the end of his life, although he did win a Nobel Prize for it. It is/was required reading in school primarily because it won the Nobel Prize, not because it was an outstanding example of his writing.
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Isn't the Nobel prize for literature generally awarded as a recognition of the author's "lifetime achievements", rather than for a specific book? I can't think of any case in which it's been awarded to a
young author, for example.