Ernest Hemingway began writing "Islands in the Stream" in 1950. A rough but mostly finished version of the book was found by his wife, Mary Hemingway - whom subsequently published the book in 1970.

"Islands in the Stream" is the first novel posthumously published after the death of Ernest Hemingway.

The book was meant to encompass a sea trilogy revolving around the life of its main character, Thomas Hudson (an artist and adventurer). The three different parts of the novel were originally to be titled:

• "The Sea When Young" (set in Bimini, the Bahamas);

• "The Sea When Absent" (set in Havana, Cuba); and

• "The Sea in Being" (set at sea).

These titles were changed, however, into what are now the books three acts: "Bimini", "Cuba", and "At Sea".

Original unclipped dustjacket showing $5.65 on inside jacket.

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Title: Islands in the Stream

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Edition: Book Club Edition

Publication Date: 1971

Publisher: Hamlyn Publishing | The Companion Book Club

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 384 pages

Dust Cover: Illustrated dustjacket. Minor creasing and edge wear to dustjacket. Unclipped dustjacket showing price on inside flap

Condition: Teal coloured boards with title and author written in gold to spine. Maps of the Bahamas for pastedowns and end papers. Green coloured edging to pages. No rips, no marks, no foxing, no inscriptions. Tight binding. Clean pages. In very good condition. Great readable copy of Hemingway's novel
Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Recognised as one of the most influential writers of the 20th-century.

Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

And received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.

He served in WW1 as an ambulance driver and then as a war correspondent.

His debut novel, “The Sun Also Rises”, was published in 1926.

Hemingway then wrote “A Farewell to Arms”, published in 1929.

Hemingway was on secondment as a war correspondent for the Spanish Civil War in around 1937. Those experiences are said to have formed the backbone for his novel, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, which was written in Havana, Cuba and published in 1940.

In 1952, Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

He died by suicide at his home in Idaho, USA, in 1961.
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