Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

Robert E. Fleming (University of New Mexico)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1960

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

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Novel

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Islands in the Stream

(1970) was the first of Ernest Hemingway's novels to be published posthumously. Like his posthumously published sketches of his early life in Paris,

A Moveable Feast

(1964),

Islands in the Stream

was edited by the writer's widow, Mary Hemingway, who was assisted in the editing of the novel by Charles Scribner, Jr. Mrs. Hemingway prefaced the book with a note stating that she and Scribner had merely corrected spelling and punctuation errors and made some cuts that she was sure that Hemingway would have made himself.

Publication of the book was awaited eagerly because of statements Hemingway had made about the number of completed books that he had stored in the vaults of the Bank of Havana, all supposedly ready to be sent to Scribner's for final editing. In addition,

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "Islands in the Stream". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 October 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4418, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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