false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649787m/4625.jpg 4625 9 In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as <I>The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hills Like White Elephants,</I> and <I>A Clean, Well-Lighted Place</I>, and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans <I>The Complete Short Stories</I> is an invaluable treasury. Finca Vigía (Spanish for "Lookout Farm") was the home of Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, and now houses a museum. The house was built in 1886 on a hill near Havana by Catalan architect Miguel Pascual y Baguer. Hemingway lived in the house from 1939 to 1961. It was at Finca Vigía that he wrote most of <i>The Old Man and the Sea</i> and <i>For Whom the Bell Tolls</i>. With a foreward by John, Patrick, and Gregory Hemingway. 8238 1938 The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition total:3095|5:1597|4:1029|3:397|2:62|1:10| 3095 13426 4041 196 5 2 false false Tue Mar 25 15:22:55 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 21 09:23:44 -0700 2009 Night Before Battle -- I was thinking last night, while we were watching M*A*S*H*, about Hemingway's preoccupation with war.

There is an episode of M*A*S*H*, not the one we were watching, where they make a thinly veiled attack on Hemingway's war writing. A famous journalist/author with a...more...]]> 4 17 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 04:35:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 06:47:09 -0700 2009 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.


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I've been reading Hemingway's complete short stories just to see if I'd been judging him too harshly all these years. It appears I haven't been judging him harshly enough. What kind of mass hypnosis are the people under who insist Hemingway innovated a lean, economical style--'the...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 13:25:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 13:44:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:10:03 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:50:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 17:20:28 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 21:04:31 -0700 2008 tome. It's difficult to summarise or review short story collections, especially one so extensive as this.

So lemme just say, there is a reason that Heminway is canon. He reminds me of Chekhov, of Vonnegut—the sadness implicit in humanity's existence and the true, yet sometim...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 20 08:17:31 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:32:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Aug 22 19:08:17 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 19:42:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 14 10:52:49 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 02:19:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 08:31:16 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 12 07:00:29 -0700 2008 In Our Time, Men Without Women, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other collections. The later works include the beginnings of some aborte...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 05 03:44:37 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 13 10:04:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 19 13:09:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 02:04:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Mon Aug 17 09:54:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 10:01:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Thu Apr 10 10:35:31 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 10:40:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 08 13:24:27 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 13:27:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Mar 04 14:20:31 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 14:23:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Thu Mar 13 10:39:25 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 10:49:27 -0700 2008 All o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:34:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 22:30:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 23 18:26:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 18:28:59 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 06:07:54 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 05 04:58:18 -0700 2008
Although not completely chronological, this collecttion goes to some lengths to provide the...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4625