About this title: Hemingway's short stories are considered his best work because of their controlled economy, the simplicity of their language, and Hemingway's constant struggle to get to the truth in a situation.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1987
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket; Mild cover wear. Moderate wear, rubbing and soil to DJ with very small chips/tears around corners, edges and spine ends. Binding tight, text clean. Due to size and/or weight of the book I can only ship it domestic mail. A... 17551. 1.7 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 650 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Macmillian Publishing
Date Published: 1987
Description: Very Good. This book came from the Hemingway house in Key West (has sticker on front cvr). Binding is tight and square. No names, no marks, no stickers, except name inner cvr. Pgs are bright and clean. This is a very nice paperback copy. Light edge and corner wear. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Date Published: 1991-06-01
ISBN-13:9780020332008ISBN:0020332009
Description: Very Good. Softcover book in very good condition, clean and tightly bound. Drawings by Carol Johnson. Ships next business day from Oklahoma. read more
Description: Very Good. B000GKWOLW Great book with absolutely no marking to textblock, page ends or inside cover. Cover has 1 bumped corner and several edge dings. Has dust jacket, but it has some crinkles and 1/2" tear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1987
Description: Very Good in good jacket. Very good book in good DJ. Hardcover with clean pages that are free or markings. DJ has faded spine and moderate wear. For quick delivery, please consider Expedited shipping-standard delivery ranges from 4-19 business days. Thank you! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1987
Description: Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, gentle soiling to outer paper edges, faint musty air to text, otherwise very good in a lightly rubbed and soiled, mylar wrapped dj, 650pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York NY
Date Published: 1987
Description: Very Good + 8vo very good or better, clean and firm NO marks 651 pages. The Finca Vigia edition. Foreward by John, Patrick, and Gregory Hemingway. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780684843322ISBN:0684843323
Description: Fine. The only complete collection by the Nobel Prize-Winning author. Your purchase benefits world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee. read more
Edition: Finca Vigia ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780684186689ISBN:0684186683
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (A141_5/9)Book is in good condition. Light Stain on some of the first pages of text. Binding showing wear on corners. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 650 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1987
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 650 pp.; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: c1987
Description: Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 651 pages, no internal markings or names, a nice tight, solid copy, in a dustjacket with photo of Hemingway on rear panel, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. read more
"I probably learned more about writing from these fifty-four stories than anywhere else, although I don't know that Hemingway would approve of my style. Unless, of course, he noticed the simplicity within the complex sentence structure. In any event, the art of omission is an important tool for a writer to have in their toolbox, and I don't think I would have ever understood that without having been exposed to these tight, finely crafted stories at a young and impressionable age."
"I read this from cover to cover on a beach in Aruba, which was just weird, because somebody dies every ten pages or so. It wasn't really in keeping with the carefree beach vibe we were going for. But you really can't deny Hemingway. I realize the man was a terrible husband and father, that his writing suffered in the end and that he didn't have the most highly evolved views of gender. But despite all that, in his prime, he wrote dozens of truly great stories.
At the small Midwestern evangelical liberal arts college that I attended, there was a lit professor who made the statement that Hemingway couldn't write emotion. We were reading "A Farewell to Arms," and the majority of students in the class (mostly young women who were aspiring elementary school teachers) agreed with her. I spent class after class defending Hemingway to these heartless women, who read "A Farewell to Arms" as some sort of failed romance novel. After reading through his short stories, I haven't changed my opinion. Hemingway writes emotion beautifully. His restraint makes it possible for him to convey the emotions of characters who for one reason or another don't demonstrate their emotions in obvious ways, much like huge segments of the human population. Not everybody breaks down and cries like a girl as soon as something goes wrong. I do, but not everybody."
"So, I didn't read the Complete short stories of Hemingway. I wanted an introduction, I'd always thought of Hemingway as..well, I'd never really given him much thought. He was just someone I wasn't interested in reading. Lord help me, I can be dense.
I've read about a dozen of the stories in this anthology. I asked my husband for his opinion on which ones I should start with and I think that I've read a fair sampling, I'll probably continue to pick this up every now and then and throw another one down. Some of these stories are what I expected of Hemingway. When I think of him, I see a large man, with a gun and a cigar and hell bent on killing something. I see wilderness and war, I see the old sea captain and the disillusioned writer in the euro café. And sometimes I see my grandfather but that just might be the Gary Cooper influence.
I was expecting the hunting, fishing, wilderness angle and The Big Two Hearted River Part I & II delivered with a yawn. The morality of The Good Lion and The Faithful Bull was fine and dandy and the cleverness of Homage to Switzerland wasn't lacking. These stories didn't give me that jaw dropping, must read everything effect that I so often hope for, but they were well written and entertaining.. Mostly, they were short and bearable.
Now the ones that I can truly say blew my Havana lovin', Zelda hatin', Hemingway image apart were A Day's Wait, a quick 4 page story about a child thinking he is about to die and how he prepares for this. I was impressed with the emotion that was so quickly and brilliantly emoted. I remember when I was about six or so, I swallowed a penny and thought I was going to die. It's not a good feeling, people. I remember standing over my parent's bed trying to prep them for this. I totally relate to Schatz.
And the acerbic tone in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Seeing-Eyed Dog, Hills like White Elephants, and The Snows of Kilamanjaro were awesome. I've always been down with the cynical, the mean-spiritedness, and this somewhat frightens me that I'm so attracted to it, because I'm really trying to be a better person. Hell if I can't enjoy some of the nastiness.
My favorite of the bunch is the first story that I was told to read.. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. I'm sure many of you goodreaders are already aware of this gem, but I have to say even late to the game, I was just stunned by it. So short and so poignant. So beautiful. It makes me want to take on a sugar daddy so I can sit in European cafés mumbling nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
"You've heard of Hemingway...everybody has. My first encounter with him came in the form a short story called "Hills Like White Elephants" back in high school and I've been enamored with the man's work ever since. His novels are superb, but I really think he shines in the short form and this collection is as good as it gets. The only minor flaw is that despite the title, it isn't complete (the posthumous collection THE NICK ADAMS STORIES contains some previously unpublished pieces that didn't make it in here). This collection is something to be revered and kept close by for a sunny afternoon."
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