''The Nick Adams Stories'' is a volume of short stories written by
Ernest Hemingway published in 1972, a decade after the author's death. In the volume, all the stories featuring
Nick Adams, published in various collections during Hemingway's lifetime, are compiled in a single collection. ''The Nick Adams Stories'' includes 24 stories and sketches, eight of which were previously unpublished. Some of Hemingway's earliest work, such as "
Indian Camp," as well as some of his best known stories, such as "
Big Two-Hearted River,"
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Contents
This volume is divided into five sections:
The Northern Woods
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Three Shots
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* 3 BC, the third year before the AD era
* March, the third month
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Indian Camp"
* "
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
* "
Ten Indians
"Ten Indians" is a short story by American writer Ernest Hemingway, featuring protagonist Nick Adams, Hemingway's autobiographical alter ego. It was published in 1927 in the collection '' Men Without Women''. The title is derived from a comment m ...
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The Indians Moved Away"
On His Own
* "The Light of the World"
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The Battler"
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The Killers"
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The Last Good Country
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Crossing the Mississippi"
War
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Night Before Landing"
* "'Nick sat against the wall ...'"
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Now I Lay Me"
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A Way You'll Never Be"
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In Another Country"
A Soldier Home
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Big Two-Hearted River"
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The End of Something"
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The Three-Day Blow"
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Summer People"
Company of Two
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Wedding Day"
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On Writing On Writing may refer to:
* '' On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft'', a memoir by American author Stephen King
* "On Writing", a story fragment by American writer Ernest Hemingway
* ''Stein on Writing'', advice for writers by American writer Sol ...
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An Alpine Idyll"
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Cross-Country Snow"
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Fathers and Sons"
Background and publication history
Like his other posthumous work, ''The Nick Adams Stories'' may have been reworked and edited in a manner he never intended. One reviewer for ''The New York Times'' had this to write about one of the stories "Three Shots", a section Hemingway originally cut from "
Indian Camp" – one of his early stories first published in 1925 volume ''
In Our Time In Our Time may refer to:
* ''In Our Time'' (1944 film), a film starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid
* ''In Our Time'' (1982 film), a Taiwanese anthology film featuring director Edward Yang; considered the beginning of the "New Taiwan Cinema"
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Alone, "Three Shots" stands as a vignette of a boy's fear, accorded sympathy by his father and impatience by his uncle. As part of the stark and spare "Indian Camp," however, it was clearly excess baggage and, knowing that it was cut out, one can only read it with admiration for the nascent and ruthlessly true artistic impulse that caused its excision.[
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Contrary to the above are those who welcome publication of additions of Nick Adams material that fills in chronological gaps of the autobiographical character's experience, and thus shows much of Hemingway's own life that remained unpublished.
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1972 short story collections
Books by Ernest Hemingway
Short story collections by Ernest Hemingway
Books published posthumously
Autobiographical short stories