Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories is a posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction

Fiction

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, published in 1995. Introduced by James Fenton

James Fenton

James Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...

 it is considered to be the most complete compendium of Hemingway's

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 short stories. It is published in the UK only by Random House

Random House

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 as part of the Everyman Library. The collection is split in two parts.

Part One contains the four individual collections of stories Hemingway published during his lifetime. They are the tiny experimental prose volume, in our time (1924), the much expanded In Our Time

In Our Time (book)

In Our Time is the first collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway published by Boni & Liveright in New York in 1925, after a smaller edition of the book, titled in our time, had been published in Paris in 1924...

 (1925, with an extra story added in 1930), Men Without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms , and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon .The volume included the following...

 (1933). In addition, four further stories were first published in Hemingway's first omnibus, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on 14 October 1938....

 (1938).

Part Two contains anomalous stories which were added to the collections Hemingway (and others) have since published. It is also includes some stories, fragments and juvenilia that have never before been published in book-form. The collection does, however, limit itself to material that had already appeared in print.

Some material, first published in The Complete Short Stories

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition, is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1987...

 (1987), is not included in this edition, as Fenton determined that it was not properly classified as short stories. This includes "One Trip Across" and "Tradesman's Return" (the first two parts of To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain who lives with a prostitute and runs contraband between Cuba and Florida. The novel depicts Harry as an essentially good man who is forced into blackmarket activity by economic forces beyond his...

); and "An African Story" (fillited from various chapters of The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden is the second posthumously released novel of Ernest Hemingway, published in 1986. Begun in 1946, Hemingway worked on the manuscript for the next 15 years, during which time he also wrote The Old Man and the Sea, The Dangerous Summer, A Moveable Feast, and Islands in the...

—itself a posthumous novel).

Part One: Stories Collected in Hemingway's Lifetime

• From Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
  • Up in Michigan (1923, revised 1938)
• in our time (1924)
• In Our Time
  In Our Time (book)
  In Our Time is the first collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway published by Boni & Liveright in New York in 1925, after a smaller edition of the book, titled in our time, had been published in Paris in 1924...
  
   (1925 and 1930)
  • On the Quai at Smyrna
  • Indian Camp
    Indian Camp
    "Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine Transatlantic Review in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in the American edition of Hemingway's first volume of short stories In Our Time...
    
    
  • The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
    The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
    "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his 1925 volume of short stories In Our Time.In the story a doctor hires a three Native Americans to clean up some logs on his property, and one of the workers casually asks him where he stole them from. The doctor...
    
    
  • The End of Something
    The End of Something
    "The End of Something" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his collection of short stories In Our Time.-Publication History:According to notes on the manuscript, Hemingway wrote “The End of Something” in March 1924...
    
    
  • The Three-Day Blow
    The Three-Day Blow
    “The Three-Day Blow” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in his collection In Our Time in 1925. The story features Nick Adams, one of Hemingway’s recurring protagonists, appearing in at least a dozen of Hemingway’s stories written during the 20s and 30s...
    
    
  • The Battler
    The Battler
    "The Battler" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was included in the collection In Our Time .In the story, Nick Adams is thrown from a train and finds temporary shelter at a campfire. There, he meets an ex-boxer named Ad Francis. Francis takes an immediate liking to Adams, who he...
    
    
  • A Very Short Story
    A Very Short Story
    "A Very Short Story" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in as a vignette, or chapter, in the 1924 Paris edition titled in our time, and later rewritten and added as a story to Hemingway's first American short story collection In Our Time, published by Boni &...
    
    
  • Soldier's Home
    Soldier's Home
    "Soldier's Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first collected in In Our Time .-Characters:* Harold Krebs, a young man who is tormented from his experiences in the war. He eventually comes to the realization that he doesn't belong in his childhood home anymore and decides to leave.*...
    
    
  • The Revolutionist
  • Mr. And Mrs. Elliot
  • Cat in the Rain
    Cat in the Rain
    "Cat in the Rain" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, written while the author was living in France. It was first published in 1925 in the short story collection In Our Time....
    
    
  • Out of Season
    Out of Season
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  • Cross-Country Snow
  • My Old Man
    My Old Man
    My Old Man is a popular but short-lived British sitcom which starred Clive Dunn as retired and embittered engine driver Sam Cobbett. Thirteen episodes were made which were shown in two series of 1974 and 1975.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Big Two-Hearted River
    Big Two-Hearted River
    "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his first collection of stories, In Our Time. The story is generally viewed as an account of a healing process for Hemingway's autobiographical character Nick Adams, recently returned...
    
    , Part I
  • Big Two-Hearted River, Part II

• Men Without Women (1927)
  • The Undefeated
  • In Another Country
  • Hills Like White Elephants
    Hills Like White Elephants
    "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women.-Plot summary:...
    
    
  • The Killers
  • Che Ti Dice La Patria?
  • Fifty Grand
  • A Simple Enquiry
  • Ten Indians
  • A Canary for One
  • An Alpine Idyll
  • A Pursuit Race
  • Today is Friday
  • Banal Story
  • Now I Lay Me

• Winner Take Nothing
  Winner Take Nothing
  Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms , and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon .The volume included the following...
  
   (1933)
  • After the Storm
  • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
    A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
    "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It was later included in his 1933 collection, Winner Take Nothing.- Plot synopsis:...
    
    
  • The Light of the World
  • God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
  • The Sea Change
  • A Way You'll Never Be
  • The Mother of a Queen
  • One Reader Writes
  • Homage to Switzerland
  • A Day's Wait
  • A Natural History of the Dead
  • Wine of Wyoming
  • The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
    The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
    "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his collection of short stories The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The original title was "Give us a Prescription, Doctor".The story takes place in a hospital run by a convent...
    
    
  • Fathers and Sons
• Stories from The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
  The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
  The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on 14 October 1938....
  
   (1938)
  • The Capital of the World
    The Capital of the World
    "The Capital of the World" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The story takes place in Madrid and follows Paco, a young waiter, and his desires to become a matador....
    
    
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro
    The Snows of Kilimanjaro
    "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of...
    
    
  • The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
    The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
    "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"...
    
     (1936)
  • Old Man at the Bridge (1938)

Part Two: Stories and Fragments from Posthumous Collections

• Uncollected Stories published in Hemingway's Lifetime
  • The Denunciation (1938)
  • The Butterfly and the Tank (1938)
  • Night Before Battle (1939)
  • Under the Ridge (1939)
  • Nobody Ever Dies (1939)
  • The Good Lion (1951)
  • The Faithful Bull (1951)
  • A Man of the World (1957)
  • Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog (1957)
• Drafts and Fragments first published in The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
  • Three Shots
  • The Indians Moved Away
  • The Last Good Country
  • Crossing the Mississippi
  • Night Before Landing
  • Summer People
  • Wedding Day
  • On Writing
• First published in The Complete Short Stories
  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition, is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1987...
  
  (1987)
  • A Train Trip
  • The Porter
  • Black Ass at the Crossroads
  • Landscape with Figures
  • I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something
  • Great News from the Mainland
  • The Strange Country
• Juvenilia and Pre-Paris Stories
  • Judgment of Manitou (1916)
  • A Matter of Colour (1916)
  • Sepi Jingan (1916)
  • The Mercenaris (1985)
  • Crossroads – an Anthology (1985)
  • Portrait of the Idealist in Love (1985)
  • The Ash Heel's Tendon (1985)
  • The Current (1985)