Ernest Hemingway

This selection of Hemingway's short stories, written mainly between the 1920s and the 1930s, follows hunters, soldiers, boxers, waiters, and couples in moments when talk fails or a single act decides a life. Settings include Michigan woods, the Italian front, Spain, Africa, and European cafes. Recurring subjects are wounding, sport, marriage under strain, and the approach of death. The pieces are self-contained; there is no novelistic through-line. The book is a gathering of short fictions in a spare declarative style, not a biography and not a continuous war narrative.

Quarter-bound in black cloth with black and white image printed paper covers. Red slipcase decorated with author's signature and portrait in black and gold.