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Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
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This collection brings together ten of Hemingway’s best-known short stories. The title story follows a dying writer stranded on safari beneath Kilimanjaro, while “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” turns an African hunt into a study of fear, marriage and sudden confidence. “The Killers” introduces two gunmen waiting for a former boxer, and “Fifty Grand” follows a professional fighter preparing for a compromised final bout.
Several stories return to the physical and psychological aftermath of the First World War. “In Another Country” places wounded soldiers in a Milan hospital, and “A Way You’ll Never Be” follows Nick Adams through the damaged landscape of the Italian front. Across Africa, Europe and the United States, the collection examines mortality, masculinity, trauma, violence and the stories people use to defend themselves against failure.
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