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the short stories the first forty nine stories with a brief preface by the author the first forty nine stories with a brief introduction by the author
at the age of twenty two ernest hemingway wrote his first short story up in michigan . seventeen years and forty eight titles later he was the undisputed master of the short story form and the leading american man of letters . the short stories introduced here with a revealing preface by the author chronicles hemingways development as a writer from his earliest attempts in the chapbook three stories and ten poems published in paris in 1923 to his more mature accomplishments in winner take nothing . originally published in 1938 along with the fifth column this collection premiered the capital of the world and old man at the bridge which derive from hemingways experiences in spain as well as the short happy life of francis macomber and the snows of kilimanjaro which figure among the finest of hemingways short fictions .
paperback scribner book company 1995 isbn 0684803348
abridged n isbn 13 9780684803340 number of pages 499 publisher simon & schuster release date 62135769600000