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Title:

In our time

Author:

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

ISBN:

9780684822761

Edition:

1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996.

Physical Description:

156 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents:

On the Quai at Smyrna -- Indian Camp -- Doctor and the doctor's wife -- End of something -- Three-day blow -- Battler -- Very short story -- Revolutionist -- Soldier's home -- Mr. and Mrs. Elliot -- Cat in the rain -- Out of season -- Cross-country snow -- My old man -- Big two-hearted river: Part I -- Big two-hearted river: PartII.

Subject Term:

Adams, Nick (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Adventure fiction

Summary:

When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp, " "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, " "The Three Day Blow, " and "The Battler, " and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose--enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.

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A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut.

When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp" and "The Three Day Blow," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision.

Now recognized as one of the most important short story collections of twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides key insights into Hemingway's later works.

Author Notes

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in the family home in Oak Park, Ill., on July 21, 1899. In high school, Hemingway enjoyed working on The Trapeze, his school newspaper, where he wrote his first articles. Upon graduation in the spring of 1917, Hemingway took a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star.

After a short stint in the U.S. Army as a volunteer Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy, Hemingway moved to Paris, and it was here that Hemingway began his well-documented career as a novelist. Hemingway's first collection of short stories and vignettes, entitled In Our Time, was published in 1925. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, the story of American and English expatriates in Paris and on excursion to Pamplona, immediately established him as one of the great prose stylists and preeminent writers of his time. In this book, Hemingway quotes Gertrude Stein, "You are all a lost generation," thereby labeling himself and other expatriate writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford.

Other novels written by Hemingway include: A Farewell To Arms, the story, based in part on Hemingway's life, of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse; For Whom the Bell Tolls, the story of an American who fought, loved, and died with the guerrillas in the mountains of Spain; and To Have and Have Not, about an honest man forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West. Non-fiction includes Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in East Africa; and A Moveable Feast, his recollections of Paris in the Roaring 20s. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea.

A year after being hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, and depression, Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.

(Bowker Author Biography)

On the Quai at Smyrna	p. 33
Indian Camp	p. 13
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife	p. 21
The End of Something	p. 29
The Three-Day Blow	p. 37
The Battler	p. 51
A Very Short Story	p. 63
Soldier's Home	p. 67
The Revolutionist	p. 79
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot	p. 83
Cat in the Rain	p. 89
Out of Season	p. 95
Cross-Country Snow	p. 105
My Old Man	p. 113
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I	p. 131
Big Two-Hearted River: Pat II	p. 143

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