''The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway'' is an ongoing scholarly
multi-volume publication of the letters
A letter collection or letter book consists of a publication, usually a book, containing a compilation of letter (message), letters written by a real person. Unlike an epistolary novel, a letter collection belongs to non-fiction literature. As a pu ...
of
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...
undertaken by the
Cambridge University Press
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. Out of the projected 16 volumes, the first volume, covering years from 1907 to 1922, was published in 2011. The project, when completed, will collect every extant Hemingway letter, numbering over 6,000, and is being edited by
Sandra Spanier, professor of English at
Pennsylvania State University
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. The project may take 20 years to finish.
Volume 1
* Available in Hardback and Fine/Leather Binding
* Years covered: 1907–1922
* Published: 20 September 2011
* Pages: 516
*
Volume 2
* Available in Hardback and Fine/Leather Binding (£75)
* Years covered: 1923–1925
* Published: 30 September 2013
* Pages: 515
*
* Fine/Leather Binding:
Volume 3
* Available in Hardback
* Years covered: 1926–1929
* Published: 14 October 2015
* Pages: 731
*
Volume 4
* Available in Hardback
* Years covered: 1929–1931
* Published: 16 November 2017
* Pages: 818
*
Volume 5
* Available in Hardback
* Years covered: 1932–1934
* Published: 31 July 2020
* Pages: 840
*
References
Works by Ernest Hemingway
Series of books
Correspondences
Collections of letters
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