The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

development of the short story and novel in American fiction, Hemingway has seized the imagination of the American public like no other twentieth-century author. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961. His other works include The Torrents of Spring (1926), Winner Take Nothing (1933), To Have and Have Not (1937), The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938), Across the River and into the Trees (1950), and posthumously, A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dangerous Summer (1985), and The Garden of Eden (1986).

BOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Complete Short Stories

The Garden of Eden

Dateline: Toronto

The Dangerous Summer

Selected Letters

The Enduring Hemingway

The Nick Adams Stories

Islands in the Stream

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast

Three Novels

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Hemingway Reader

The Old Man and the Sea

Across the River and into the Trees

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

Green Hills of Africa

Winner Take Nothing

Death in the Afternoon

In Our Time

A Farewell to Arms

Men Without Women

The Sun Also Rises

The Torrents of Spring

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Library of Congress Gilahging-in-Publication Data

Hemingway Ernest, 1899-1961.

[Short stories]

The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway / Ernest Hemingway.—Finca Vigia ed.

p.  cm.

I. Title.

PS3515E37A15  1991

813?.52—dc20  90-26241

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8729-3

ISBN-10: 1-4165-8729-2

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Footnote

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The reader’s indulgence is requested for this mention of an extinct phenomenon. The reference, like all references to fashions, dates the story but it is retained because of its mild historical interest and because its omission would spoil the rhythm.