THE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1938)

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THE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
{THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES AND THE PLAY "The Fifth Column"}
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE [THE MODERN LIBRARY]
Publishing Year: 1938
Manufactured in the United States of America
Pages: 598
Dimensions: 21 x 14,5
CONTENTS:
The Fifth Column
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936)
The Capital of the World (1936)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936)
Old Man at the Bridge (1938)
Up in Michigan (1923, revised 1938)
On the Quai at Smyrna
Indian Camp (1924)
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife (1925)
The End of Something (1925)
The Three-Day Blow (1925)
The Battler (1925)
A Very Short Story (1924)
Soldier's Home (1925)
The Revolutionist (1925)
Mr. And Mrs. Elliot
Cat in the Rain (1925)
Out of Season
Cross-Country Snow (1924)
My Old Man
Big Two-Hearted River, Part I (1925)
Big Two-Hearted River, Part II (1925)
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
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he was a reporter for a few months for The Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian Front to enlist as an ambulance driver in World War I. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).
In 1921, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent 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 been a journalist. He based For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) on his experience there. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they separated after he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He was present with the troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris.
Hemingway went on safari to Africa shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea (1952), where he was involved in two successive near-fatal plane crashes that left him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he ended his own life in mid-1961.