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 Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again.

Published in 1925, Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories focuses on alienation, grief, separation, and loss. Nick, his semi-autobiographical character, appears in multiple stories throughout and is used to explore themes of male comradery, early love, and marriage problems. Known as Hemingway's most experimental book, In Our Time is considered one of Hemingway's early masterpieces.

Gertrude Stein, in conversation with Ernest Hemmingway, once made the comment: “You are all a lost generation.” She was referring to the young adults who struggled to find their purpose in the wake of World War I, yet showed incredible resilience against all odds.

Presented here is the expanded 1925 edition of this seminal novel. This collection of short stories would mark one of the most auspicious and earth-shattering debuts by an author in literary history and also introduced the world to the fictional character of Nick Adams, a protagonist Hemingway would revisit repeatedly in his career. Within a few years, Hemingway would become known as one of the most important voices of his generation and his stark prose—lean and brutal at times—would be imitated by generations of writers who followed him.

"En nuestro tiempo" is composed of 32 of the author's best-loved stories. A strange mixture that deals with the relationship between war and peace, some experiences of Americans living in France and details about human beings with their war traumas, their rootlessness, rage or despair. "On Smyrna Pier", "Indian Camp", "Cross Country in the Snow" and "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" are some of the titles that make up this anthology of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"Three-Day Blow'' is a short story that became a chapter from In Our Time. Jake (Hemingway's alter ego) hikes to his friend Bill's house where they spend the morning talking and drinking. The conversation is mostly chit-chat until the liquor loosens them up enough to discuss Jakes's breakup with Marjorie.

The story is about a 25-year-old Harvard student who follows a "clean" life. He marries a 40-year-old clean Southern woman and the two try very hard to have a baby. Eventually, both become disenchanted with each other, and the wife's girlfriend moves in to live with her.

In the aftermath of the First World War, Paris offers a liberating waystation for expatriate newspaperman Jake Barnes. Jake is a casualty of the war, and his disillusionment would be complete were it not for his relationship with the fast-living, twice-divorced Englishwoman Brett Ashley. Along with a small collection of other dissolute expats, Jake and Brett travel from the cafés of Paris to the wild fiestas of Pamplona on a desperate quest for fulfillment.

Post World War I, two men are attempting to find the perfect woman, although they both disagree about what might be considered ideal. Yogi Johnson, a World War I veteran, struggles with his lack of attraction to the opposite sex, until one day he's met with a gorgeous Native American woman. Scripps O'Neill, reeling from being left by his wife and young daughter, befriends a waitress and tumbles down a path of commitment.

This 1923 In Our Time collection consists of 18 vignettes. Five center on World War I (Chapters 1, 4, 5, 7, 8), and six on bullfighting (Chapters 2 and 12 to 16); the others center around news stories. Chapter 10 is the longest; it details a soldier's affair with a Red Cross nurse, and is based on Hemingway's relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky. The piece about a robbery and murder in Kansas City originated in a newspaper story Hemingway covered as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star; it is followed by the story of the public hanging of a Chicago mobster.

NBC University Theater initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience. In its later years, it also included short stories and plays, and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award. University Theater relied on excellent distillations of the novels. and first-class acting alongside high production values.

When Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) published Three Stories and 10 Poems in 1923, he was 24, a wounded veteran of the Great War, and still three years away from publishing his debut novel (The Sun Also Rises). So the "Three Stories" give us a unique look into Hemingway's developing writing skills and his very particular areas of creative interest.

This classic collection includes Hemingway’s best short stories: "Indian Camp", "My Old Man", and "Big Two Hearted River", and less appreciated ones such as "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot".

Novellesamlingen Mænd uden kvinder udkom i 1927 og var Hemingways anden novellesamling. Det er en mandsverden, der skildres. Ligesom hans senere værker er novellerne kendetegnet ved en kort og prægnant skrivestil med en indirekte fremstillinger af følelser, hvor det centrale skal graves frem fra tekstens antydninger. Novellernes temaer er fremmedgørelse, tab og sorg.

Novellesamlingen Ingenting til vinderen udkom i 1930 og var Hemingways tredje novellesamling. I sidste instans er er der ingen, der vinder i livets spil, slutresultatet er nederlag og død. Alt er forgængeligt.

Første del beskriver den midaldrende, fraskilte maler Thomas Hudsons liv på en lille ø i Golfstrømmen, hvor ensomheden brydes af besøg fra hans børn, som han tager med på sejlads og fiskeri. Anden del foregår på hans farm på Cuba under Anden Verdenskrig, hvor Hudson, der lever alene omgivet af sine katte, tænker tilbage på sit tidligere liv og døver ensomheden på barerne. Samtidig antydes det, at han udfører hemmeligt arbejde for de allierede, hvilket følges op i tredje del, hvor Hudson patruljerer i sin store båd i farvandene omkring Cuba på jagt efter tyske ubåde.

Om end Hemingway er mest kendt for sine romaner, anser mange hans noveller for det ypperste i hans forfatterskab. Novellerne i Kilimanjaros sne og andre noveller omfatter de noveller, der ikke tidligere har været medtaget i hans første tre novellesamlinger, og de udkom for første gang samlet i 1938 som del af antologien The Fifth Column and First Forty-Nine Stories. De er alle sammen fremragende eksempler på Hemingways helt unikke stil og betragtes i dag stadig som nogle af hans bedste værker.

Om end Hemingway er mest kendt for sine romaner, anser mange hans noveller for det ypperste i hans forfatterskab. Novellesamlingen I vor tid udkom i 1925 og var Hemingways første novellesamling samt hans første større udgivelse.

Hemingway skrev En varig fest i 1960 på bakgrunn av noen notater han fant igjen fra sine ungdomsår i Paris i 1921-1926, hvor han som nygift korrespondent startet sin litterære karriere. Det blir tegnet et bilde av livet hans som ung, spirende forfatter, lykkelig med kone og barn, og han gir en rekke portretter og anekdoter om noen av kollegaene han møtte, som f. eks. Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce og F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Selv om Hemingway er mest kjent for romanene sine, ser mange på novellene hans som det ypperste i forfatterskapet. Kilimanjaros sne og andre noveller inneholder verk som ikke ble tatt med i de tre tidligere novellesamlingene hans. De ble utgitt samlet for første gang i 1938 som del av antologien The Fifth Column and First Forty-Nine Stories. Novellene er alle sammen glimrende eksempler på Hemingways helt unike skrivestil, og blir fortsatt sett på som noen av hans beste verk.