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Men without women

by Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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  • 18 chapters
  • Reading level: 5th grade

"Men Without Women" by Ernest Hemingway is a collection of short stories published in 1927. This volume presents fourteen tales exploring bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. Among them are now-famous works like "The Killers," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "In Another Country." Critics praised Hemingway's spare, bone-sharp prose style, though some found his subjects too vulgar or callous. The collection showcases his signature economy of language—meticulously literal yet powerful, reproducing life's harsh moments without becoming dull itself.

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  • Short stories, American
  • American fiction · 20th century
  • Adams, Nick (Fictitious character)

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Books by Ernest Hemingway

By
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Copyright, 1926, by The Little Review Publishing Company
Copyright, 1926, by Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead
Copyright, 1927, by Republic Publishing Company
Copyright, 1927, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Copyright, 1927, by Atlantic Monthly Company
Copyright, 1927, by The Macaulay Company
Printed in the United States of America

TO
EVAN SHIPMAN

Some of these stories were first published
in the following periodicals: The American
Caravan, The Atlantic Monthly, The Little
Review, The New Republic, La Nouvelle
Revue Française, This Quarter, Der Querschnitt,
Scribner’s Magazine, Transition.

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Contents

  1. Books by Ernest Hemingway
  2. The Undefeated
  3. In Another Country
  4. Hills Like White Elephants
  5. The Killers
  6. Che Ti Dice La Patria?
  7. A Meal in Spezia
  8. After the Rain
  9. Fifty Grand
  10. A Simple Enquiry
  11. Ten Indians
  12. A Canary for One
  13. An Alpine Idyll
  14. A Pursuit Race
  15. To-Day Is Friday
  16. Banal Story
  17. Now I Lay Me
  18. Transcriber Notes

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This free edition of Men without women by Ernest Hemingway comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #69683, released 2023-01-01. 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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