Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. ... It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... As we have shown, it was praised almost immediately in The New York Times as being "unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature"." ... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide...

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