The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector's Edition
5/5
()
About this ebook
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway presents many of Hemingway’s most famous classics alongside rare and unpublished material: Hemingway’s early drafts and correspondence, his dazzling out-of-print essay on the art of the short story, and two marvelous examples of his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.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
Read more from Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Moveable Feast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Whom the Bell Tolls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Also Rises Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Old Man and the Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Have and Have Not Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Men Without Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Islands in the Stream: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Garden of Eden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Related ebooks
The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Stories and Ten Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ernest Hemingway on Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Our Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nick Adams Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nine Stories: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Islands in the Stream: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best American Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Have and Have Not Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Garden of Eden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Sleep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hemingway Stories: As featured in the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dangerous Summer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Across the River and Into the Trees Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winner Take Nothing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Soldier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5F. Scott Fitzgerald: Complete Works Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Literary Fiction For You
The Alchemist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Handmaid's Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tender Is the Flesh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If We Were Villains: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pride and Prejudice: Bestsellers and famous Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5East of Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Queen's Gambit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camp Zero: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
2 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
I
1.
Judgment of Manitou
1916
Dick Haywood buttoned the collar of his mackinaw up about his ears, took down his rifle from the deer horns above the fireplace of the cabin and pulled on his heavy fur mittens. I’ll go and run that line toward Loon River, Pierre,
he said. Holy quill pigs, but it’s cold.
He glanced at the thermometer. Forty-two below!
Well, so long, Pierre.
Pierre merely grunted, as, twisting on his snow shoes, Dick started out over the crust with the swinging snowshoe stride of the traveler of the barren grounds.
In the doorway of the cabin Pierre stood looking after Dick as he swung along. He grinned evilly to himself, De tief will tink it a blame sight cooler when he swingin’ by one leg in the air like Wah-boy, the rabbit; he would steal my money, would he!
Pierre slammed the heavy door shut, threw some wood on the fire and crawled into his bunk.
As Dick Haywood strode along he talked to himself as to the traveler’s of the silent places.
Wonder why Pierre is so grouchy just because he lost that money? Bet he just misplaced it somewhere. All he does now is to grunt like a surly pig and every once in a while I catch him leering at me behind my back. If he thinks I stole his money why don’t he say so and have it out with me! Why, he used to be so cheerful and jolly; when we agreed at Missainabal to be partners and trap up here in the Ungava district, I thought he’d be a jolly good companion, but now he hasn’t spoken to me for the last week, except to grunt or swear in that Cree lingo.
It was a cold day, but it was the dry, invigorating cold of the northland and Dick enjoyed the crisp air. He was a good traveler on snowshoes and rapidly covered the first five miles of the trap line, but somehow he felt that something was following him and he glanced around several times only to be disappointed each time. I guess it’s only the Koutzie-ootzie,
he muttered to himself, for in the North whenever men do not understand a thing they blame it on the little bad god of the Crees.
Suddenly, as Dick entered a growth of spruce, he was jerked off his feet, high into the air. When his head had cleared from the bang it had received by striking the icy crust, he saw that he was suspended in the air by a rope that was attached to a spruce tree, which had been bent over to form the spring for a snare, such as is used to capture rabbits. His fingers barely touched the crust, and as he struggled and the cord grew tighter on his leg, he saw what he had sensed to be following him. Slowly out of the woods trotted a band of gaunt, white, hungry timber wolves, and squatted on their haunches in a circle round him.
Back in the cabin Pierre as he lay in his bunk was awakened by a gnawing sound overhead, and idly looking up at the rafter he saw a red squirrel busily gnawing away at the leather of his lost wallet. He thought of the trap he had set for Dick, and springing from his bunk he seized his rifle, and coatless and gloveless ran madly out along the trail. After a gasping, breathless, choking run he came upon the spruce grove. Two ravens left off picking at the shapeless something that had once been Dick Haywood, and flapped lazily into a neighboring spruce. All over the bloody snow were the tracks of My-in-gau, the timber wolf.
As he took a step forward Pierre felt the clanking grip of the toothed bear trap, that Dick had come to tend, close on his feet. He fell forward, and as he lay on the snow he said, it is the judgment of Manitou; I will save My-in-gau, the wolf, the trouble.
And he reached for the rifle.
2.
Untitled Milan Story
1918
Item 604, Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston. Untitled short story written in the fall of 1918. Autograph manuscript on stationery of the American Red Cross, Milan, Italy. Four pages of text written in pencil on both sides of two sheets of stationery.
[I]
Nick lay in bed in the hospital while from outside came the hysterical roar of the crowd milling through the streets. Viva La Pace! Viva La Pace!,
came the voice of the crowd through the closed glass doors, and as the mob waving flags, blowing horns, carrying torches made of twisted paper boiled into the street of the American hospital it cried Viva America!
and then Viva Wilson!
Gee,
Nick grinned at the nurse. Those horns sound like Halloween! Some time back in the States tonight, eh Sister?
Oh wouldn’t it be wonderful on Broadway!,
said the nurse ecstatically.
I don’t know about Broadway but I’ll bet things are popping up in Petoskey Michigan where I’m from. I didn’t know you were a New Yorker.
II
Oh I’m not really. I’m from Fort Wayne Indiana. It’s on the G.R. and I. and that runs to Petoskey. But you know how everyone talks about Broadway!
Sure I’ve used that stuff too. Well good night Sister. Fort Wayne will look pretty good in a couple of months eh?
Don’t talk about Broadway to me!,
the nurse smiled back over her shoulder as she closed the door.
Nick reached out a thin hand[,] grasped a bottle on the table by his bed and shoved it under the bed clothes.
In a moment the nurse reappeared.
I wonder where that bottle of bichloride is. I was certain I left it here. Did Miss Becker take it Mr. Grainger?
She must have,
said Nick.
On the little iron table by the bed were two oblong red Moroccan leather