- Men Without Women (short story collection)
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Men Without Women Author(s) Ernest Hemingway Country United States Language English Genre(s) Short story collection Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons Publication date 1927 Media type Book Men Without Women (1927) is a collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). The volume consists of fourteen stories, ten of which had been previously published in magazines. The story subjects include bullfighting, infidelity, divorce and death. "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants" and "In Another Country" are considered to be among Hemingway's best work.[1]
In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald dated September 1927, Hemingway tells that he originally wanted to find another title from the Book of Ecclesiastes (source of The Sun Also Rises) but, upon borrowing an Anglican vicar's bible, discovered that Rudyard Kipling and others had mined all potential biblical quotations, leaving him to come up with Men Without Women off the cuff.[citation needed]
Contents
Stories
- "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"
Publication history
Men Without Women was Hemingway's second book of short stories. It was published in October 1927 with a first print-run of approximately 7600 copies at $2.[2]
Notes
- ^ Meyers 1985, pp. 195–196
- ^ Oliver, pp. 218–218
References
- Baker, Carlos (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01305-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=yP-cgVNr55wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0691013055&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-42126-4.
- Mellow, James R. (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37777-3.
- Oliver, Charles M. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark. ISBN 0-8160-3467-2.
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