- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Scribner (April 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684837862
- ISBN-13: 978-0684837864
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #361,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Keach gives just the right voice to the stories of Hemingway...Anyone who simply wants a good story, well told and well read, should let Keach take charge and just dive in.
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Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers," "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain, bald language of his first story, "Up in Michigan," to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Quintissential Hemingway,
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This review is from: Short Stories (Paperback)
A great anthology that could also be a primer on Hemingway. The beauty of this book is the access to Hemingway's work and personal timeline. You can see the writer at the height of his powers, you can see him hit his peaks and valleys. Similarly, you may notice Hemingway's sentiments changing from his green years to maturity.This collection exhibits the best of Hemingway's storytelling, in his classics such as ...Francis Macombre, Snows of Kilimajaro. Up In Michigan, Big 2 Hearted River, his coming of age stories in the Nick Adams series, and a multitude of vignettes - some unfinished, though rarely overdone. Always present is Hemingway's commitment to evoking the sensual qualities of his surroundings and experiences - his reporter's instinct for capturing places and moments. Ernest never uses his subjects to reach for higher truths. The immediacy of reality seems enough, if only he can capture it. Consistency is also seen throughout the stories in Hemingway's choice of characters - his breave, determined, cool and calm men and women, brief in speech but loud in actions. They dreams are muted by reality, beautifully subdued but resonant. Reading the stories, you can feel the writer grow, writing and revising, expanding and abridging. It is the style he cultivated in his stories that he perfected in his novels.
5.0 out of 5 stars
stories that define what great short fiction is,
By Stephen Dufrechou (Memphis, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Short Stories (Hardcover)
This collection of short stories defines what great short fiction is. Hemmingway constructs each story with total percision the way a genious archetect builds a perfect house, that is, with utter flawlessness. With a style of writing unique to only him, the great parisian pilgram, avid fisherman and chronicler of bullfighting gives us a timeless collection of literary gems.
3.0 out of 5 stars
The leading American man of letters for the early 20th C.,
This review is from: Short Stories (Paperback)
This selection of short pieces is an excellent and substantial part of Hemingway's ouevre. Some of them are now considered as classics of the short story form, such as "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macowber" and "The Killers" -- a story which took, it is said, three years for Hemingway to complete. A clever stylist of American Modernism, his work is characterised by the staccato, laconic, minimalist sentences and expressions, which create a superbly "real", as opposed to merely literary, effect. Later examples of his work show how he further experimented with this style, in an effort to endow language with greater powers of precision and clarity. Unfortunately, the result is sometimes stilted and clumsy, particularly in the dialogue. This collection is recommended for its inclusion of some of his finest short works. Others, such as "This is Friday" and "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" are not exactly literary gems, but the reader will be left to judge for him/herself.
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