Short Stories

This collection gathers the short stories Hemingway wrote from the 1920s into later decades, including the Nick Adams pieces and later independent tales. Settings include Michigan woods, Italian and Spanish war fronts, African camps, and bars in Europe and Cuba. Typical plots are slight: a fishing trip, a wait for news, a conversation that will not name its subject. Recurring concerns are wound, skill, fear, and the codes men use to get through pain. Dialogue carries much of the weight. The book is a body of separate stories, not a novel and not a war history.

Quarter bound in black cloth, laminated white paper covers printed with a pattern in red and black by Beck. Page tops stained red. Pale grey endleaves. Red slipcase.