The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," along with seven previously unpublished stories.
In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author's short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway's ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.
Table of Contents:
Foreword -- Publisher's Preface -- Part I. The First Forty-nine -- Preface to The First Forty-nine -- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber -- The Capital of the World -- The Snows of Kilimanjaro -- Old Man at the Bridge -- Up in Michigan -- On the Quai at Smyrna -- Indian Camp -- The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife -- The End of Something -- The Three-Day Blow -- The Battler -- A Very Short Story -- Soldier's Home -- The Revolutionist -- Mr. and Mrs. Elliot -- Cat in the Rain -- Out of Season -- Cross-Country Snow -- My Old Man -- Big Two-Hearted River: Part I -- Big Two-Hearted River: Part II -- The Undefeated -- In Another Country -- Hills Like White Elephants -- The Killers -- Che Ti Dice La Patria? -- Fifty Grand -- A Simple Enquiry -- Ten Indians -- A Canary for One -- An Alpine Idyll -- A Pursuit Race -- Today Is Friday -- Banal Story -- Now I Lay Me -- After the Storm -- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place -- The Light of the World -- God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen -- The Sea Change -- A Way You'll Never Be -- The Mother of a Queen -- One Reader Writes -- Homage to Switzerland -- A Day's Wait -- A Natural History of the Dead -- Wine of Wyoming -- The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio -- Fathers and Sons -- Part II. Short Stories Published in Books or Magazines Subsequent to The First Forty-nine -- One Trip Across -- The Tradesman's Return -- The Denunciation -- The Butterfly and the Tank -- Night Before Battle -- Under the Ridge -- Nobody Ever Dies -- The Good Lion -- The Faithful Bull -- Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog -- A Man of the World -- Summer People -- The Last Good Country -- An African Story -- Part III. Previously Unpublished Fiction -- A Train Trip -- The Porter -- Black Ass at the Cross Roads -- Landscape with Figures -- I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something -- Great News from the Mainland -- The Strange Country.
Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS docu
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Pub Date: August 03, 1998
1.51" H x 8.26" L x 5.53" W
672 pages
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