Ernest Hemingway: Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, The

BOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Complete Short Stories

The Garden of Eden

Dateline: Toronto

The Dangerous Summer

Selected Letters

The Enduring Hemingway

The Nick Adams Stories

Islands in the Stream

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast

Three Novels

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Hemingway Reader

The Old Man and the Sea

Across the River and into the Trees

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

Green Hills of Africa

Winner Take Nothing

Death in the Afternoon

In Our Time

A Farewell to Arms

Men Without Women

The Sun Also Rises

The Torrents of Spring

The

Complete

Short Stories of

Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway Ernest, 1899-1961.

[Short stories]

The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway / Ernest

Hemingway.—Finca Vigía ed.

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3515E37A15 1991

813′.52—dc20 90-26241

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8729-3

ISBN-10: 1-4165-8729-2

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Contents

Foreword

Publisher’s Preface

PART I “The First Forty-nine”

Preface to “The First Forty-nine”

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

The Capital of the World

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Old Man at the Bridge

Up in Michigan

On the Quai at Smyrna

Indian 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: Part I

Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

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

After the Storm

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

The Light of the World

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

The Sea Change

A Way You’ll Never Be

The Mother of a Queen

One Reader Writes

Homage to Switzerland

A Day’s Wait

A Natural History of the Dead

Wine of Wyoming

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio

Fathers and Sons

PART II Short Stories Published in Books or

Magazines Subsequent to “The First Forty-nine”

One Trip Across

The Tradesman’s Return

The Denunciation

The Butterfly and the Tank

Night Before Battle

Under the Ridge

Nobody Ever Dies

The Good Lion

The Faithful Bull

Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog

A Man of the World

Summer People

The Last Good Country

An African Story

PART III Previously Unpublished Fiction

A Train Trip

The Porter

Black Ass at the Cross Roads

Landscape with Figures

I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something

Great News from the Mainland

The Strange Country

Foreword

WHEN PAPA AND MARTY FIRST RENTED in 1940 the Finca Vigía which was to be his home for the next twenty-two years until his death, there was still a real country on the south side. This country no longer exists. It was not done in by middle-class real estate developers like Chekhov’s cherry orchard, which might have been its fate in Puerto Rico or Cuba without the Castro revolution, but by the startling growth of the population of poor people and their shack housing which is such a feature of all the Greater Antilles, no matter what their political persuasion.

As children in the very early morning lying awake in bed in our own little house that Marty had fixed up for us, we used to listen for the whistling call of the bobwhites in that country to the south.

It was a country covered in manigua thicket and in the tall flamboyante trees that grew along the watercourse that ran through it, wild guinea fowl used to come and roost in the evening. They would be calling to each other, keeping in touch with each other in the thicket, as they walked and scratched and with little bursts of running moved back toward their roosting trees at the end of their day’s foraging in the thicket.

Manigua thicket is a scrub acacia thornbush from Africa, the first seeds of which the Creoles say came to the island between the toes of the black slaves. The guinea fowl were from Africa too. They never really became as tame as the other barnyard fowl the Spanish settlers brought with them and some escaped and throve in the monsoon tropical climate, just as Papa told us some of the black slaves had escaped from the shipwreck of slave ships on the coast of South America, enough of them together with their culture and language intact so that they were able to live together in the wilderness down to the present day just as they had lived in Africa.