In our time
by Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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- 15 min read
- 18 chapters
- Reading level: 5th grade
"In our time" by Ernest Hemingway is a collection of short stories published in 1925. Born from a complex history involving war vignettes and prose sketches, the collection features iconic Nick Adams stories like "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River." Through spare language and oblique emotion, Hemingway explores themes of alienation, loss, grief, and separation. The work showcases his famous "iceberg theory" of omission, establishing his distinctive voice and earning recognition as an early masterpiece that attracted significant literary attention.
- Short stories, American
- American fiction · 20th century
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Chapter 1
Everybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux. Oh, I am so soused.” We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out. It is dangerous. It will be observed.” We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen. It was funny going along that road. That was when I was a kitchen corporal.
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This free edition of In our time by Ernest Hemingway comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #61085, released 2020-01-03. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Short Stories, American Literature.
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