“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Chapter 1 Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, has gone eighty-four days […]
American literature
A Farewell to Arms
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Book One The novel opens during World War I, where Frederic Henry, an American ambulance […]
American literature
For Whom the Bell Tolls
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” — John Donne (Epigraph to For Whom […]
American literature
The Sun Also Rises
“You are all a lost generation.”— Gertrude Stein (epigraph) Chapter 1: Paris and Jake Barnes The novel opens with Jake Barnes, an American expatriate and journalist living in […]