Ernest Hemingway
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| Title | : | The Nick Adams Stories |
| Author | : | Ernest Hemingway |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 268 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1972 by Amereon Limited (first published January 1st 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Literature. American. 20th Century. Novels |
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The Nick Adams Stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer & parent--a sequence closely paralleling events of Hemingway's life.The 1st section, called Northern Woods, includes "Three Shots", "Indian Camp", "The Doctor & the Doctor's Wife", "Ten Indians" & "The Indians Moved Away". The 2nd section, On His Own, includes "The Light of the World", "The Battler", "The Killers", "The Last Good Country" & "Crossing the Mississippi".
The 3rd section, War, has "Night Before Landing", "Nick Sat Against the Wall", "Now I Lay Me", "A Way You'll Never Be" & "In Another Country". The 4th section, Soldier Home, has "Big Two-Hearted River", "The End of Something", "The Three-Day Blow" & "Summer People". The 5th section, Company of Two, has "Wedding Day", "On Writing", "An Alpine Idyll", "Cross-Country Snow" & "Fathers & Sons".
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| Original Title: | The Nick Adams Stories |
| ISBN: | 0848805240 (ISBN13: 9780848805241) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nick Adams |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 6922 Users | 361 ReviewsColumn About Books The Nick Adams Stories
What a wonderful way to read these stories; you do appreciate them in a different way in sequence. The biggest surprise was "Last Good Country," an unfinished novella that's kind-of like Hemingway's attempt at a children's adventure story, that he stops writing just before it turns dark. I'd read "Father and Sons" before and it's just as haunting as I remember. It also prove how little was "simple" about Hemingway style. Suicide hangs over the whole thing, without that word ever being used. ThatIt can be unsettling, unnerving to revisit an author embraced during one's teenage years. Reader reaction can have less to do with literature than with memory and passion. I read all of Hemingway when I was in high school, and I had quite a crush on him. He became the first version of my Jungian "animus." Now, four decades later, I reread these stories and am stunned by the powerful feelings they generate - adolescent yearning, glorious self-confidence, a naive sense of ownership of all that is
It never ceases to amaze me the crud that teachers will subject their students to. This was my case in high school. I was forced to write numerous papers talking about how awesome this book was. In reality Ernest Hemingway was a total Eeyore. Everything he writes is depressing and boring. It's crazy that every one applauds him as being such a realist. I feel sorry for anyone who sees life in that way.I guess it's fine if you read a little Hemingway to broaden your horizons. Just be sure to read
Im afraid that short stories are just not Hemingways strong suit. One of the amazing things about his novels is the way he gradually adds layer after layer to his characters, slowly exposing their complexity. With the short vignettes here, we dont have this deep understanding of the characters, so rather than the tension of unspoken emotions behind brusque dialogue, were just left with a lot of declarative sentences. That said, some stories worked much better than others. The war stories were
Some stories were okay. Interestingly, the connections between some of the characters here and characters in my Hemingway favorites are sometimes very similar and for that reason, I allowed 3 stars instead of 2. If this were written by anyone other than the great Papa, I would not have finished. I really was not impressed with nor drawn in to many of the stories and had put off this book for years based on summaries I had read in the past. I felt that I needed a dose of Hemingway, so I finally
This was Hemingway at his absolute best!I have read some of the Nick Adams stories before but never the complete collectionin one book.Loved every story!The writing was just so brilliant!He writes in such an elegant simple way and just leaves images in my mind that are so clear.Reading these stories i could nearly smell the fresh air as Nick Adams was fishing or campingor just eating a sandwich by the river or feel the cold water as he was wading into the river!Just awesome!Cant get enough of
The Nick Adams Stories: A Magnificent CollectionBy: Laura Bacon Ernest Hemingway has been known as one of the most popular American authors to date. he does not fall short in this collection of short stories. Said to The Nick Adams Stories: A Magnificent CollectionBy: Laura Bacon Ernest Hemingway has been known as one of the most popular American authors to date. he does not fall short in this collection of short stories. Said to mirror Hemingways own life, The Nick Adams Stories are a
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