“I read about it in the papers,” Retana said. “How many corridas you had this year?” Retana asked. The little man sat looking at him across the desk. Manuel knocked with his knuckles on the desk. Over his head was a bull’s head, stuffed by a Madrid taxidermist on the walls were framed photographs and bull-fight posters.

Manuel went in, carrying his suitcase.Ī little man sat behind a desk at the far side of the room. Something in the door clicked several times and it swung open. “Who’s there?” said some one in the office.

Manuel, standing in the hallway, felt there was some one in the room. He set down his suitcase and knocked on the door. Manuel Garcia climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana’s office. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America’s finest short story writer. And Hills Like White Elephants is a young couple’s subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Nick Adams makes an appearance in Ten Indians, in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. The Killers is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. In Another Country tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. In Banal Story, Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. In these 14 stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. Representing some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing.

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