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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.

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First published March 1,1983

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March 1, 1983 by Scribner
ISBN
9780684179285
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0684179288
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, in mid-1961, he died of suicide.

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ArcanaXIX
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April 17,2025
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Reading Hemingway is always a good idea. There's just a certain deliciousness to his work that you won't find anywhere else, ever. Having said that, it's also a bit disappointing to come to the end of a tale like For Whom the Bell Tolls and experience the stop, which is nothing like an ending. The story simply stops. It's probably the most potent irritant quality of the postmodern class of artists. It was cutting edge, even cool, probably, when it was first published but now it's become a cliche of itself. I enjoyed the unfolding of the story and the complexity of the characters, but I didn't enjoy the non-ends of his tales. So I give it four stars, but I feel like giving it three.
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ManiacalBookUni
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April 17,2025
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I've read most oh Hemingway's books in the past but it's been like 20 years so I thought given how cheap this was I'd read them again!
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tomuramuffin
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April 17,2025
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A collection of some of Hemingways great books. Couldn't resist the bargin. The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea.
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JoestarEISH_020
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April 17,2025
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A solid collection of Hemingway novels. My copy is a little loose and not holding up super well, but its still a great deal for four great books. My order of preference is probably Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, then For Whom the Bells Toll.
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benincasa
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Ernest Hemingway: Four Novels (Library of Essential Writers Series) by Ernest Hemingway (2007)
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catullus_d_rus
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April 17,2025
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A Farewell to Arms moved me deeply. I was no Hemingway fan in college, preferring Faulkner. I have learned to appreciate Hemingway's prose.
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Vimhhh
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April 17,2025
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These 4 stories ran the gamut with regard to writing style/likability. His sentences are either very clipped or 150 words long,like the one I counted in Farewell to Arms.The Sun Also Rises has lots of irritating dialogue,characters drifting in/out of view. My favorite (The Old Man & The Sea) was spare, sublime. I was there in that boat with him. A Farewell to Arms and For Whom The Bell Tolls fell somewhere in between the two. Still, it's Hemingway, so recommend it. See which ones are your faves.
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