In Our Time (short story collection) which bears similarities to Eliot's "The Waste Land". Eliot's "Waste Land" motif exists throughout much of Hemingway's early fiction, but is most notable in this collection, "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929). He borrowed Eliot's device of using imagery to evoke feeling. Benson attributes similarities between Hemingway and Eliot to Pound, who edited both. Motifs and themes reappear, the most obvious being the juxtaposition of life and death. There are some recurring images such as water and darkness – places of safety. Benson notes how, after reading the first few vignettes and stories, readers "realize
Farewell Summer Farewell Summer Farewell Summer is a novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel "Dandelion Wine", and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With "Something Wicked This Way Comes", they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois. The first chapter, also titled "Farewell Summer", appeared