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Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains fourteen stories. Themes and subject matter range from bullfighting, boxing, and prizefighting to divorce, infidelity, and death. Critics at the time praised Hemingway's concise language and powerful prose.

 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.

Originally privately published in Paris, Three Stories and Ten Poems holds an interesting history. The three stories, “Up in Michigan", “Out of Season”, and “My Old Man”, were first seen in this collection, but “Up in Michigan” was banned and not considered publishable in America until 1938 because of its blatant sexuality. In addition, this original publication of the three stories is all that remains of Hemingway’s early works after his suitcase containing the originals was stolen.

In the public imagination, Ernest Hemingway looms larger than life. But the actual person behind the legend has long remained elusive. Now, his son Patrick shares the letters they exchanged over two decades, offering a glimpse into how one of America’s most iconic writers interacted with his children. These letters reveal a father who wished for his children to share his interests—hunting, fishing, travel—and a son who was receptive to the experiences his father offered.

Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction since the publication of A Farewell to Arms in 1929 contains 14 stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar.

The 1925 New York edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time trails readers through the years before, during, and after World War I. The collection’s first two stories, “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” introduce Hemingway’s semiautobiographical character Nick Adams as a child. In total, seven stories portray the young man’s coming of age. All fourteen, including interspersed vignettes, embody the themes that Hemingway would return to throughout his career: alienation, grief, loss, and separation, as well as the regenerative powers of nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Även om Hemingway är som mest känd för sina romaner, anser många att hans noveller är det bästa med hans författarskap. Novellerna i Snön på Kilimandjaro och andra noveller var inte med i hans första tre novellsamlingar och de kom ut samlade för första gången 1938 som en del av antologin The Fifth Column and First Forty-Nine Stories.