The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway’s most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes “The Killers,” the first of Hemingway’s mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical “Fathers and Sons,” which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway’s career, to his father’s suicide; “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” a “brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention,” wrote Hemingway’s biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: “I put all the true stuff in,” with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America’s master storytellers at the top of his form.

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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com Review Returning from a Kenyan safari in 1932, Ernest Hemingway quickly devised a literary trophy to add to his stash of buffalo hides and rhino horns. To this day, Green Hills of Africa seems an almost perverse paean to the thrills of bloodshed, in which the author cuts one notch after another in his gun barrel and declares, “I did not mind killing anything.” Four years later, however, Hemingway came up with a more accomplished spin on his African experiences–a pair of them, in fact, which he collected with eight other tales in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The title story is a meditation on corruption and mortality, two subjects that were already beginning to preoccupy the 37-year-old author. As the protagonist perishes of gangrene out in the bush, he recognizes his own failure of nerve as a writer: Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now. In the story, at least, the hero gets some points for stoic acceptance, as well as an epiphanic vision of Kilimanjaro’s summit, “wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun.” (The movie version is another matter: Gregory Peck makes it back to the hospital, loses a leg, and is a better person for it.) But Hemingway’s other great white hunter, in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” is granted a less dignified exit. This time the issue is cowardice, another of Papa’s bugaboos: poor Francis is too wimpy to face down a wounded lion, let alone satisfy his treacherous wife in bed. Yet he does manage a last-minute triumph before dying–an absolute assertion of courage–which makes the title a hair less ironic than it initially seems. No wonder these are two of the highest-caliber (so to speak) tales in the Hemingway canon. –Bob Brandeis About the Author Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

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⭐Hemingway is an old shoe to chew on, sure, and I think a lot of his writing is a bit too off-kilter and a slog for the average reader (including, but not limited to, myself). There’s much praise for Hemingway, and for good reason, but the limited amount of nutrients I get from his writing doesn’t keep me coming back for more. And damn if it isn’t sometimes actually pretty boring.The most exciting tale in this collection of short stories is the last one, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” which focuses on an American trophy hunter in Africa with a disgruntled wife and a hunting guide and assistant who displaces Mr. Macomber in his wife’s eyes by simply hunting and shooting better. The first short story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” is also set in Africa. Again, it’s a story of a disgruntled married life, but this time it’s from the perspective of a man who has a gangrenous leg and lays dying, his wife helpless to assist him. Both have very similar nuances, and helps keep the volume of short stories contained in its own microcosm of death and dying, unrealistic expectations of life, bereavement, and generalized living practices that often have a bigger impact on our lives than what we might have previously thought.Sure, okay… Hemingway has his place on our shelves, but I don’t see it in this volume. It’s droll and the “best” short story in here, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” just doesn’t cut it for me. I’ll keep giving him a bit more leeway for my reading mind, but if I don’t pick up this collection again I won’t be too aggravated.

⭐I had to read this for a writing class, which should mean I hate it. I don’t like assigned reading. With notable exceptions I don’t like high literature or the classics. I am not the target audience for this book.I loved it. Hemmingway is a master storyteller. His writing style is unique in how extreme it is in its sparcity. He barely uses any adjectives, relying on bread and butter nouns and verbs. No flowery speach. No poetic languge. Just plain talk. The titular story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro is heartbreaking in its clarity. The writing style mirrors the bleak, barron landscape, enhancing and empowering it. Every word serves a purpose. Every image feeds the story as a whole. It is in itself a masterclass in tight writing.His work can be adventurous or border on mundane, but it is never boring.

⭐When I finish writing a manuscript I always treat myself to the film classic, ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.’ It’s a favorite of mine, and seeing how the main character (memorably played by Gregory Peck) is a writer I was naturally drawn to it. Ava Gardner was never better, nor could anyone touch her even by today’s standards. I decided to buy the book because books are usually better than the film, and this film was clearly above average.I was disappointed to find Hemingway wrote ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ as a short story. It was less than 20 pages! I believe it was based on his 1933 two-month safari with his wife. Why he chose to write this as a short story is anyone’s guess. I would not be surprised if he did so because by the time he wrote the story he’d grown tired of writing, and didn’t want to get drawn into a full-blown novel. Yes, writer’s get tired of writing. It’s fun, but still work, and takes a lot of you. Still, I wish he had made the story into a full length book. It would have been one of his best.If you like Hemingway and want to read his books, then this is worth getting. I only liked this one, his short story ‘The Killers,’ and ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.’ If you want or expect more, don’t bother with this book. It probably only sold because Hemingway is an American favorite. He could have done a lot better. Still, I do like his descriptions, however short they are, about hunting and characters. I still say he should have finished the book instead of writing short stories. Anyone could have done that.David Lucero, author

⭐”In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains.”Vintage EH, from “In Another Country.” He puts you there: Italy, 1918. Don’t let the latter-day revisionists and heavy-handed feminist influence upon literature put you off. He’s still great, uniquely great. Don’t be fooled by cliquish critics who say he was only good at short stories. “A Farewell to Arms” is the greatest war novel of the 20th century. And read “In Another Country,” right here, in this book. It speaks to our times even better than it spoke to the era in which Hemingway went to war.

⭐just as it says it is it was used so there is a few scratches other than that i’m happy with the book and it’s worth the money

⭐While some of the topics aren’t something I would select to read, Hemingways writing is thoroughly gripping even if his chosen topic isn’t of particular interest. He’s a wordsmith and the short stories are just GREAT!

⭐To die pleasantly, in a dreamy state, such is the apparent delusion of this story. It is a sweet story, of a consciousness that vanishes in a delirium. However well written it is ignorant of the physiological facts, of the terrible pain, endless heaving of body fluids, the disintegration of mind and body that accompanies untreated gangrene. So, yes it is a lovely story, it is uplifting to human spirit, it is not, as Hemmingway would want you to believe, a reflection of his knowledge.

⭐One of the best books ever written. IMHO, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” has to be listed in the Top 5 pieces of writing ever. I’ve read that story a dozen times at least, and purchasing the book for that story alone makes this book well worth it. Throw in all the other great stories, and this is a must-have for anybody who treasures literature.

⭐Seriously, it’s Hemingway! What more do you need to know? It is a style and voice not just of a generation but a century. This will never be classed as his greatest offering but adds more depth to the canon. The only possible flaw is that shorts stories could always be so much more.

⭐This is so well known it hardly needs a review. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is so well told, so much about human passions and regrets and weakness and hope and love. Although not every one of the stories has the power to hold your attention so much, I never for a moment flagged. I love the way the action just happens- no history, no explanation, you’re there in the action and the conversation.

⭐This Hemmingway book is amazing, I’m trying to get into Hemmingway and a collection of short stories seemed to be the ideal way to go. The stories range in length of a couple of pages to about four or five, in total there’s about twelve. More importantly there are pre stories before the main story begins, I found these pre stories fascinating, these were only about a couple of paragraghs in length, but I found them very absorbing, giving a great insight to the writings of Hemmingway. This isn’t a book which will have you turning page after page in haste to find out what happens next, but rather an engrosing read where you can savour and devour every line of the wonderful prose which is the signature of Hemmingways style. As an introduction to Hemmingway this book is absolutely wonderful, it dosn’t matter if you’ve read it before, this is the type of book that can be taken any where at anytime and be re-read. First class, I love it.

⭐This ebook is unreadable, contains only a few pages of text, garbled, out of sequence and in various fonts. It is a faulty product. My frustration was compounded by being unable to return it for refund as it was outside the permitted return period. Deleted it and downloaded it again, same story – disappointing.

⭐Brilliant read good value

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