In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAYS AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Timewas 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 Timecontains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp, The Doctor and the Doctors 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 car 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 Timeprovides a key to Hemingways later works.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Language: English

Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 160

Publisher: Scribner

Publication Date: 1996-01-31