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Originally Posted by rhadin
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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Sparrow is right about the Nobel Prize. The reason The Old Man and the Sea is the Hemingway most often assigned in school is that it is short. Similarly for Silas Marner, Ethan Frome and the Crying of Lot 49.