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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner TakeNothing, 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 ... (show more)
Reviews (95)
The best short in this collection is the title story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Amazingly woven story of the last moments on earth and what becomes most important during that time.
Another Steinbeck classic that inspires me to write today.
Easy short story.......a look into what might be how one's final hours is. A bit morose.
I am in awe of this man's ability to pull clean information out of white noise.
"... when he got back to Paris... there in the cafe as he passed was that American poet with a pile of saucers in front of him and a stupid look on his potato face talking about the Dada movement with a Roumanian who said his name was Tristan Tzara, who always wore a monocle and had a headache,..."
"If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours."
Hemingway's voice gets inside your head. Like Tolstoy he can describe human behavior with elegant accuracy.
