In our time (Scribner Classics) -

Ernest Hemingway

New York Charles Scribner's Sons

1974

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-10: 0684174707

This remarkable collection comprises Hemingway's earliest stories, in which he forged a new style for fiction. The volume includes "On the Quai at Smyrna", "Indiam Camp", "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife", "The End of Something", "The Three Day Blow", "The Battler", "A Very Short Story", "Soldier's Home", "The Revolutionist", "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot", "Cat in the Rain", "Out of Season", "Cross Country Snow", "My Old Man", "Big Two-Hearted River" and "l'Envoi".

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was educated there in the public schools. He became a reporter on the Kansas City Star and in World War I served as an ambulance driver in Italy and was badly wounded in action. After the war he settled in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star and it was there he began his serious writing career. He served as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He died in Idaho in 1961.