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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
The Hemingway Library Edition
Scribner
July 2018
On Sale: July 17, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 1476787670
EAN: 9781476787671
Kindle: B01MPZM3G3
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Literature and Fiction
The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest
Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Seán and
introduced by his son Patrick, this “illuminating” (The
Washington Post) collection includes the best of the
well-known classics as well as unpublished stories, early
drafts, and notes that “offer insight into the mind and
methods of one of the greatest practitioners of the story
form” (Kirkus Reviews). Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged
masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in
perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway
remains a literary force much greater than his image. Of all
of Hemingway’s canonical fictions, perhaps none demonstrate
so forcefully the power of the author’s revolutionary style
as his short stories. In classics like “Hills like White
Elephants,” “The Butterfly in the Tank,” and “The Short
Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Hemingway shows us great
literature compressed to its most potent essentials. We also
see, in Hemingway’s 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 Hemingway’s most famous classics alongside rare and
unpublished material: Hemingway’s early drafts and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, “The Judgment of
Manitou,” 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 century’s 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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