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Summary: Fine
Review: This is a fine book of stories. Hemingway could write a fine sentence. He wrote some fine stories. Those fine stories are in this truly fine book. Reading these stories is like catching a fine and fresh trout when fishing an Idaho stream. Or like downing a fine absinthe after soaking up the oil on your plate with a fine piece of bread as you look the pretty girls over at the other tables, as you sit in a clean well-lighted place on the Rue Jacob in Paris. Or like being a matador pulling a cape over a bull's fine horns as the bull tries to gore you, but you are too quick and brave for this fine bull, so you come through the bullfight undefeated, after which you cut off the bull's ear and present it to Lady Brett Ashley sitting in the stands. That's what reading this fine, fine book is like. It's really a fine book.
Rating:
Summary: A WORK OF A MASTER.
Review: This is a work of a master. He is an American classic.
Rating:
Summary: A WORK OF A MASTER.
Review: This is a work of a master. He is an American classic.
Rating:
Summary: Hemingway at his best
Review: This is Hemingway at his best. Although a few of his novels are stunning, Hemingway's short stories are his best writings...which makes them some of the best writings of the English language. For those who wish to write off Hemingway as a misogynist, I would suggest a careful reading of "Cat in the Rain" and "Up in Michigan." This is the only complete story selection to bear his name.
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Summary: A GREAT collection of Stories!
Review: This is Hemingway at his finest. His stories contain, in my opinion, his best work. Written in his famous almost adjectiveless style, many of these stories are accurate and TRUE, in the deepest and largest sense of the word.Masterpiece stories such as: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers, "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" are all here. True, like any comprehensive collection, this one contains some of the author's weaker works. "Fifty Grand" comes to mind. But, so many of these stories are masterpieces! These stories are not to be missed! Hemingway's characters are not always likeable, but they feel what anyone feels, when it's important, and thus, we care about them, and they help connect us back to ourselves. I heartily recommend this collection of marvelous stories to everybody, everywhere.
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Summary: complete & definitive
Review: This is the one complete short story collection. Everything from each of the previous collections is included. There is commentary on the collection by Hemingway himself. Each of the wonderful Nick Adams stories is included. "Big Two-Hearted River," the wonderful, multi-layered story of a man and a trout stream is here. "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," is included. Its first line competes with Melville's "Call me Ishmael." as the greatest first line in American literature. This book doesn't demand to be read straight through. It can be savored, a bit at a time, through many years.
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