Winner Take Nothing by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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Fourteen of some of Hemingway’s finest short stories that examine life’s different stages through Hemingway’s unique perspective.Ernest Hemingway’s Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland” concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant; “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States; and so on. Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer. He has always excelled in that medium, and this volume reveals him at his best.

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⭐”Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he win far enough, shall there be any reward within himself.”Such is the dedication Ernest Hemingway wrote for WINNER TAKE NOTHING, a grim, cynical, occasionally black-humorous collection of short stories which, if they achieve nothing else, give us an insight into the author’s particular way of looking at the world. Hemingway had a racketing youth that took him all over America and Canada and later, Europe, and the extent of that experience — as a reporter, an ambulance driver during WWI, a correspondent living in Spain and France, and as a glorified beach bum in Florida — is reflected in these tales, some of which are now considered classics of American literature.My favorites: “After the Storm” — An American dockyard thug, having stabbed someone in a bar fight and then fled on a boat, encounters a just-sunken passenger ship after a violent storm and tries to perform a little impromptu salvage. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” — A short, poignant tale about a drunken insomniac in Paris, and the two waiters who wish he’d just go home.”The Sea Change” – A selfish young man tries to talk his pregnant girl into an abortion.”A Way You’ll Never Be” – This story, set in Italy in WWI after a bloody battle, introduces Nick Adams, a recurring character in Hemingway’s shorts who was clearly based upon himself.”A Day’s Wait” — A black-comic short about a boy who believes he is dying of fever.”A Natural History of the Dead” — One of Hemingway’s finest short stories, it begins as a cool, almost scientific treatise on death and then deteriorates, quite deliberately, into a personal reminiscence about war.Love him or hate him, Hemingway was one of the most important writers of the last few centuries, at least in the English-speaking world, if only because of his influence on modern language. His particular style, very carefully developed under the tutelage of Gertrude Stein, was friendly even to barely literate people, massively increasing his popularity, and his earthy, worldly, cynical take on life, and willingness to tackle subjects hitherto smothered in silence, fit the mood of the period in which he found his fame. WINNER TAKE NOTHING is aptly named, because Hemingway’s view of life was unremittingly bleak, though punctuated with coarse humor and just a tinge of sentimentality. It is the work of a man who believed that life broke the good and the bad impartially, and that while it may have punished vice, it seldom rewarded virtue. It is the work of a man who believed that victory was difficult to obtain and, having been obtained, inevitably rang hollow. And yet it must be said that Hemingway probably took more pleasure from life than his tough-guy code was willing to let him admit, and his fascination with the process of life — eating, drinking, fighting, hunting, fishing, traveling, making love — is part of what makes reading him worthwhile. Man, he once said, can be destroyed but not defeated, and there is enough of that defiant attitude in WINNER TAKE NOTHING to make the reader take something positive away from it — something, as it were, from Nothing.

⭐This mixed compilation, copyright 1933, includes some solid Nick Adams short stories as well as a couple of other great short stories (Wine Wyoming and a Switzerland setting). Every writer bombs a few times, even Hemingway, and this collection has more than its fair share.

⭐Read these early writings only After you’ve read some of Hemingway’s truly great novels and later and better short stories.

⭐You have to like Hemingway, which I do.

⭐It’s good

⭐Great

⭐Hemingway’s style is timeless. You will not regret this collection . It doesn’t get better than this. Each story isn’t spoon fed to you, he makes you think and piece it together.

⭐While I’ve deduced that I’m not a huge Hemingway fan, I can appreciate his particular style of writing, especially when it’s packaged into short stories like this. There were some I liked and some I loved and some I really despised, but if you want to get started with Hemingway and familiarize yourself with his writing and like short stories, this is a good place to start.

⭐Hello.If anyone is unaware of Ernest Hemingway’s writing orare familiar with the great man’s work, this collection ofstories is ideal. Hemingway is at his best in ‘Winner Takes Nothing’. Hisvery simple narrative was something he struggled with. Butthis book is proof that his labours were worth while. The opening story ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombersparkles with tension. Reflecting Hemingway’s time in Africa. My particular favourite of his stories here though is ‘ A CleanWell – Lighted Place’. A remarkable short tale which could havemade a cracking film. Ernest Hemingway is the finest author I have ever read. Thiscollection is proof of his remarkable gifts.Craig Minto.

⭐Again just another brilliant book from Hemmingway. It will keep you enthralled from cover to cover. If you are a Hemmingway fan you will not be disappointed.

⭐Amazing read – lots of short stories and the one in Madrid was like having a day trip in the city! Better than EASYJET!

⭐It’s Hemingway.

⭐The book itself looks good but I hate the editing of this copy. It is like a pdf printed without love.

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