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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780684843322
ISBN: 0684843323
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 672
Publication Date: 1998-08-03
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Well crafted
Review: I agree that Hemingway wrote well crafted stories. He was definitely a master at this. However, writing stories that hold the readers attention, is a quality that was lacking. Overall, the stories were dull and uninteresting.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Short stories
Review: It is awfully hard to give an overall rating to all of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, as each has its own features, and needs a separate rating. But all are well-written. Hemingway has a simple style of writing, and as such, is easily understandable. I have read all his short stories back in 1974 when taking a short story course at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Since then, I have learned more and more about Hemingway. I literally felt I had a personal encounter with him when visiting Key West, Florida, where he lived for eleven years. He wrote some of his short stories elsewhere, then some in Key West itself, and that's where he published them all.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Snappy prose!
Review: It's fantastic to have all these stories in one book. "Hills Like White Elephant's" is still my favorite story, but I also enjoyed some that I had never heard of. I like the short declarative sentences; it makes for an easy read. I love that I can open it up to any story and just start reading. You don't have to start from the beginning and read it to the end. Each story only takes an hour at most to read - some probably twenty minutes if you're an extra fast reader.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Short stories of Ernest Hemingway
Review: This book is great!! The stories are organized well and it is a complete collection. I'm really enjoying it!!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Mixed
Review: First of all, it is difficult rating; Some stories deserve 4 maybe 5 stars while others only 2.

Finca Vigia is his home in Cuba ("Lookout Farm"). This book contains 21 stories in addition to the "the first forty-nine"; average length is under ten pages. Some are as short as a thought, a page out of a novel, or unfinished. Many of the stories take place in Florida, Cuba, the Midwest, and Spain and are written in first person; some very early in life.

At times the worldly Hemingway just writes about the mundane, while the next story we may be sitting in an arena watching a graphic bull-fight. The reoccurring subject matter: hunting, war, medicine, tragedy, marriage/relationships, death, fishing, sports, and drinking.

Racial epithets are frequent throughout. Many of the stories can be uninteresting, banal (as if making a report) and confusing (overly informative). He then can make the shift to simple everyday dialog, containing amazing and eloquent observations. He introduces native dialect and uses hidden subjects. Can the stories be traced to his personal experiences? His novels are better.

Wish you well
Scott

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