The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Classics) - Hardcover

Hemingway, Ernest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684862212 ISBN 13: 9780684862217

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.

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Review

"'Stamped with the urgency of Hemingway's style - revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality'" (Guardian)

"In a class by itself - the country, at all hours shines bright and clear in these pages" (Daily Telegraph)

From the Publisher

'An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects' Daily Telegraph

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684862212
• ISBN 13: 9780684862217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 143