08年3月16日VOA Special English资料及MP3

　　I'm Shirley Griffith.

VOICE TWO:

　　And I'm Doug Johnson with People in America, a program about people who are important in the history of the United States. Today we present the second part of the story of Ernest Hemingway's life and writings.

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VOICE ONE:

　　At twenty-five, Hemingway was living in Paris. He was a famous writer. But the end of his first marriage made him want to leave the place where he had first become famous.

　　Years later he said: "The city was never to be the same again. When I returned to it, I found it had changed as I had changed. Paris was never the same as when I was poor and very happy. "

VOICE TWO:
　
　　Hemingway and his new wife returned to the United States in nineteen twenty-eight. They settled in Key West, an island with a fishing port near the southern coast of Florida.

　　Before leaving Paris, Hemingway sent a collection of his stories to New York to be/published. The book of stories, called "Men Without Women," was/published soon after Hemingway arrived in Key West.

　　One of the stories was called "The Killers." In it, Hemingway used a discussion between two men to create a feeling of tension and coming violence. This was a new method of telling a story