by Ernest Hemingway
I have read most if not all of the individual collections so this is largely a re-read that picks up any stray stories that I missed.
Now I know that my misgiving was a correct prediction of this unhappy read. For all these years I escaped from reading him because he's one of my mother's favorite authors and I was scared and I had this premonition about the possible result of a meeting between Hemingway and me. How much I wanted t...
I only read "Hills Like White Elephants" for an introduction, but I'll probably come back and finish the rest of them up.
I love Ernest Hemingway writing style, sparse, economical, and simplistic. My favorite story is "Hills Like White Elephants," which I read in college. The descriptions, lack of emotion, dialogue driven without ever explicitly stating the problem, making the reader such as myself work for the meanin...
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" -- It's been at least 13 years since I'd read this story in a college American Lit survey, so it was pleasant to read it now and rediscover the beautiful simplicity of this brief tale about the inevitable loneliness of aging.I was struck by the dichotomy between the wai...
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