From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds ofstories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - Ingoing where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, andseeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument youwrite with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know Ihad to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put awhetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, thanto have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth andwell-oiled in the closet, but unused.' This is a collection ofHemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a briefintroduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiartales, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light ofthe World", and the "Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Winner Take Nothing"and "Men Without Women" collections.
【作者简介】
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the sonof a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as anambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home toAmerica in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as areporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning fromjournalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris wherehe renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriatessuch as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingwaytravelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationallyrecognized literary master of his craft. He received the NobelPrize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The OldMan and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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