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A collection of short stories previously published in Hemingway’s earlier collections. These are generally considered the best of the early short stories. Ranging from semi-autobiographical tales from his childhood in Michigan to the contemplative title story, set in Africa and stories set in Europe during or post WW1.
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- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Macmillan Pub Co, Easton Press, Noguer y Caralt Editores
- Editions
- 59
- Language
- kaz, Portuguese, French, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9789723827705
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where
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