The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Fülszöveg

The Finca Vigía edition of Ernest Heming-
way's short stories collects for the first time
the complete mature work of the acknowl-
edged master of the genre in one definitive
volume.
The first omnibus volume of Heming-
way s short stories was published in 1938.
Dubbed "The First Forty-nine," it collected
the contents of In Our Time, Men Without
Women, Winner Take Nothing, the play
The Fifth Column, and four additional
stories, including the celebrated "The Short
Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The
Snows of Kilimanjaro." The omnibus
volume was scarcely off press before
Hemingway began contemplating a new
collection of stories. He set forth his plans
in a letter to his editor Maxwell Perkins at
Scribners on February 7, 1939, suggesting
several stories for the collection, including
"Landscape with Figures," which is pub-
lished here for the first time. However,
other writing projects captured his interest,
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Fülszöveg

The Finca Vigía edition of Ernest Heming-
way's short stories collects for the first time
the complete mature work of the acknowl-
edged master of the genre in one definitive
volume.
The first omnibus volume of Heming-
way s short stories was published in 1938.
Dubbed "The First Forty-nine," it collected
the contents of In Our Time, Men Without
Women, Winner Take Nothing, the play
The Fifth Column, and four additional
stories, including the celebrated "The Short
Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The
Snows of Kilimanjaro." The omnibus
volume was scarcely off press before
Hemingway began contemplating a new
collection of stories. He set forth his plans
in a letter to his editor Maxwell Perkins at
Scribners on February 7, 1939, suggesting
several stories for the collection, including
"Landscape with Figures," which is pub-
lished here for the first time. However,
other writing projects captured his interest,
(Continued, on back flap)
(Continued from front flap)
and his intentions have remained unfulfilled
until now.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway contains the entire contents of
"The First Forty-nine" plus fourteen stories
published subsequently in books or maga-
zines and seven never-before-published
works of fiction. These include four
completed short stories and three extended
scenes from unfinished novels that expand
our understanding of Hemingway's private
and public persona as a celebrated literary
figure, war correspondent, and father.
Hemingway's three sons, John, Patrick,
and Gregory, have written an eloquent
foreword recalling their years with Papa at
the Finca Vigia ("Lookout Farm") in San
Francisco de Paula, where Hemingway lived
and worked for much of the last two decades
of his life. Charles Scribner, Jr., Heming-
way's longtime publisher, contributes a
preface that traces the literary life of a man
whose love of travel, adventure, and writing
became inseparable elements of his incom-
parable fiction.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway will stand as the definitive
collection by the man whose craft and vision
remain an enduring influence on genera-
tions of readers and writers. Vissza