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ISBN-100684804441

ISBN-139780684804446

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Book TitleSnows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorErnest Hemingway

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-004764

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Table Of ContentContents The Snows of Kilimanjaro A Clean, Well-Lighted Place A Day's Wait The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio Fathers and Sons In Another Country The Killers A Way You'll Never Be Fifty Grand The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

SynopsisThe 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., 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, heresay, 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., The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Storiescontains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected fromWinner TakeNothing, Men Without Women,andThe 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, heresay, 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3515.E37S5 1995