![]() ![]() Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as one of America’s finest short story writers. And “Hills Like White Elephants” is a young couple’s subtle, heart-wrenching discussion about the future. Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship. ![]() Nick Adams makes an appearance in “Ten Indians,” in which he is presumably betrayed by his girlfriend, Prudence. “The Killers” is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. “In Another Country” tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. The ‘however’ was central to Fiedler’s argument. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often-uneasy relationship between men and women, sports and sportsmanship. Ernest Hemingway: Men With, or Without, Women Brian Harding Chapter 21 Accesses Abstract ‘There are, however, no women in his books’ wrote Leslie Fiedler in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960). Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.įirst published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. ![]()
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