Scribner
July 2018
On Sale: July 17, 2018
384 pages ISBN: 1476787670 EAN: 9781476787671 Kindle: B01MPZM3G3 Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingwayβs work, edited by the authorβs grandson SeΓ‘n and introduced by his son Patrick, this βilluminatingβ (The Washington Post) collection includes the best of the well-known classics as well as unpublished stories, early drafts, and notes that βoffer insight into the mind and methods of one of the greatest practitioners of the story formβ (Kirkus Reviews).
Ernest Hemingway is a cultural iconβan archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exileβbut, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image. Of all of Hemingwayβs canonical fictions, perhaps none demonstrate so forcefully the power of the authorβs revolutionary style as his short stories. In classics like βHills like White Elephants,β βThe Butterfly in the Tank,β and βThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,β Hemingway shows us great literature compressed to its most potent essentials. We also see, in Hemingwayβs short fiction, the tales that created the legend: these are stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time.
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway presents many of Hemingwayβs most famous classics alongside rare and unpublished material: Hemingwayβs early drafts and correspondence, his dazzling out-of-print essay on the art of the short story, and two marvelous examples of his earliest work--his first published story, βThe Judgment of Manitou,β which Hemingway wrote when still a high school student, and a never-before-published story, written when the author was recovering from a war injury in Milan after WWI. This work offers vital insight into the artistic development of one of the twentieth centuryβs greatest writers. It is a perfect introduction for a new generation of Hemingway readers, and it belongs in the collection of any true Hemingway fan.
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