People consider many of these classics.Īfter high school, Hemingway reported for a few months for the Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian front to enlist. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collections of short stories, and three nonfiction works. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works.

Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I, journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature.Įconomical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer. And 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Nick Adams makes an appearance in 'Ten Indians,' in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. 'The Killers' is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. 'In Another Country' tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. In 'Banal Story,' Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera.

In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing.

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway