Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780684803340
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476770192
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as “Hills Like White Elephants,” “The Killers,” “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style—from the plain, bald language of his first story, “Up in Michigan,” to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Books by Ernest Hemingway
• PREFACE
• 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
• Notes
• Reading Group Guide
• About the Author
• Copyright