Mr Hemingway, applying that quick eyeand wrist of his to the rings of theboxer and bullfighter, achieves someunforgettable reporting of the worldin which blood is argument... The author'sexceptional gift of narrative quality givesthe excitement of a well-told tale to what is,in fact, a simple description of a scene.

'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you willfind some that you like... In going where you have to go,and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you haveto see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with.But [ would rather have it bent and dulled and know I hadto put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape andput a whetstone to it, and know that I had something towrite about, than to have it bright and shining and nothingto say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.'Ernest Hemingway, from his Preface

A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories,featuring an introduction by the author and lesser knownas well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'FiftyGrand', and 'The Light of the World', and The Snows ofKilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing and Men WithoutWomen collections.

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

The Capital of the World

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Old Man at the Bridge

Up in Michigan

On the Quai at Smyrna

Indian Camp

The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife

The End of Something

The Three-Day Blow

The Battler

A Very Short Story

Soldier's Home

The Revolutionist

Mr and Mrs Elliot

Cat in the Rain

Out of Season

Cross-Country Snow

My Old Man

Bag Two-Hearted River: Part I

Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

The Undefeated

In Another Country

Hills Like White Elephants

The Killers

Che Ti Dice La Patria ?

Fifty Grand

A Simple Enquiry

Ten Indians

A Canary For One

An Alpine Idyll

A Pursuit Race

Today is Friday

Banal Story

Now I Lay Me

After the Storm

A Clean, WeU-Lighted Place

The Light of the World

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

The Sea Change

A Way You'll Never Be

The Mother of a Queen

One Reader Writes

Homage to Switzerland

A Day's Wait

A Natural History of the Dead

Wine of Wyoming

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio

Fathers and Sons