In Our Time

Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author’s hallmark style—uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism—the stories’ themes of alienation, loss, and grief continue the work Hemingway began earlier in his career. Includes two of his best-known Nick Adams stories: “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River.”

Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. The stories’ themes of alienation, loss, and grief continue the work Hemingway began earlier in his career.

Indian Camp 
The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife 
The End of Something 
The Three-Day Blow 
The Battler 
A Very Short Story 
Soldier’s Home 
The Revolutionist 
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot 
Cat in the Rain 
Out of Season 
Cross-Country Snow 
My Old Man 
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I 
Big Two-Hearted River: Part II 

“There's something immortal about these short pieces. They are absolute miracles of prose, of description, of evocation.” Edna O'Brien
 
Succinct and lucid in his prose style, American novelist and short story writer Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) had an enormous influence over authors in the twentieth century. A member of the expatriate circle called the Lost Generation, Hemingway cultivated a larger-than-life image of vigorous masculinity complemented by an intense sensitivity.
 
Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. The stories were widely praised for what later would be considered the author’s hallmark style: uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism. Their themes of alienation, loss, and grief continue the work Hemingway began earlier in his career. The collection includes two of his best-known Nick Adams stories: “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River.”