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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780020332008 Edition: Finca Vigia Edition ISBN: 0020332009 Label: Scribner Paper Fiction Manufacturer: Scribner Paper Fiction Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 650 Publication Date: June 01, 1991 Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction Studio: Scribner Paper Fiction Editorial Review: Product Description: The Finca Vigia edition of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway collects for the first time the complete work of the acknowledged master of the genre. This landmark collection includes the entire contents of The First Forty-Nine, the first omnibus volume of Hemingway's works publishedin 1939, as well as 14 stories published subsequently in other books or magazines and seven works published for the first time in the hardcover edition. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Very Good Collection, With A Few ExceptionsHaving read several of Hemingway's longer novels (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls) I looked forward to this collection with great anticipation. My appetite was only whetted with the first story in the collection, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", which I found to be magnificent. Alas, it proved to be the star of the collection. While several of the remaining stories were certainly outstanding (in particular "Fifty Grand", A Way You'll never ... Read More Rating:  - How did he do it?It shouldn't be overlooked that Hemingway wrote some swell novels, but I've always felt that on a general level, he seemed to reach the fullest potentials of his talent with his short stories. In stories such as Hills Like White Elephants, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and A Clean Well Lighted Place, his crisp vocabulary is done complete justice through some astounding characterizations, observations and reflections. His writing appears so spontaneous that I often find myself reading certain lines over and ... Read More Rating: - BEST COLLECTION YET BY FAR.We go through literary phases in our society with some author being "in" while others are "out," and sometimes these phases swing from one side to the other, much as our government does. At present we seem to be going through a period where Hemingway is "out," and to appear "in," we have all sorts of people biting at his heels, making light of his work, branding it politically incorrect, grousing about this and snipping at that; referring to him as a chauvinistic pig, questioning his musicality, challenging ... Read More Rating: - OK, I Guess, But I Think Hemingway Owes Whitman Some RoyaltiesAfter 'falling out' with Gertrude Stein (famous for her line 'A rose is a rose is a rose' ala Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet) Hemingway sent her an unsigned telegram: 'A bitch is a bitch is a bitch.' Highly 'accident-prone' guy too. Pulled lamp cord thinking it was toilet flush down so hard it dropped the chandelier on his noggin & left him blin for a few weeks. In Cuba, unable to flush unwanted love-letters down toilet, used machine-gun to blast the porcelian to pieces. Weird guy. Anyways, I've read all ... Read More Rating: - PhenomenalI saw that someone complained about the soft paperback cover; it is true. If you buy the paperback, it peels and quickly begins to wear. I take great care of my books, but this cover just falls apart anyway. The paper on the inside feels like it's made out of recycled newspaper. But, can you seriously beat this collection? Every short story that the man has ever written? It is still a great purchase. |
