The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway  (English, Paperback, Hemingway Ernest)

The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway is a definitive collection of Hemingway’s short stories compiled in one volume.

Summary Of The Book

Ernest Hemingway is one of America’s most influential writers of the last century. The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway contains a compilation of the author’s short stories, collected and published after his death.

He was famous for his war themed and wilderness themed writing. The collection in this book is divided into three parts. The first part is the First Forty-Nine. This collection was published in 1938, and contains forty nine short stories and The Fifth Column, a full length play.
This first part contains writings from his previous anthologies like Men Without Women, In Our Time, and Winner Take Nothing. This part includes some of his well known stories like The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. It also includes the stories from In Our Time such as Indian Camp, Old Man At The Bridge, The Capital Of The World, A Very Short Story, The Battler, The Doctor

And The Doctor’s Wife, Mr. And Mrs. Elliot, Up In Michigan, and Cat In The Rain.

The first part also includes stories from Men Without Women such as In Another Country, A Simple Enquiry, The Killers, Now I Lay Me, The Undefeated, and Fifty Grand. The stories in this part from the Winner Take Nothing collection includes The Light Of The World, A Clean, Well-lighted Place, After The Storm, The Sea Change, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, A Day’s Wait, One Reader Writes, and The Mother Of A Queen.

The second part contains short stories that were published after the first 49 anthology. This contains stories like Night Before Battle, The Good Lion, A Man of the World, and An African Story. This part also includes The Denunciation, Under The Ridge, The Butterfly and The Tank, Get A Seeing-Eyed Dog, Nobody Ever Dies, The Faithful Bull, The Last Good Country and Summer People.

Part three contains a collection of stories published for the first time, in this collection. This section contains Great News From the Mainland, Black Ass At The Crossroads, The Porter, The Strange Country, A Train Trip, Landscape With Figures, and I Guess Everything Reminds You Of Something.

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American journalist and writer.

Other books by Hemingway are A Moveable Feast, The Torrents Of Spring, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Across the River And Into The Trees, The Old Man And The Sea, 88 Poems, The Garden of Eden, and Green Hills of Africa.

He was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He worked as a reporter for a short time, after completing high school, then enlisted as an ambulance driver in the Italian Front during the First World War. He was injured and came back home in 1918. He continued working as a reporter covering war zones, and he reported on the Spanish Civil War. His first published novel was The Sun Also Rises. His experiences in war zones inspired his book, A Farewell To Arms. He was known for his short, terse writing style. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He committed suicide in his Idaho home in 1961 at the age of 61.