Nicholas Adams is a fictional character, the

protagonist A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a st ...

of two dozen short stories and vignettes written in the 1920s and 1930s by American author

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...

. Adams is partly inspired by Hemingway's own experiences, from his summers in

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at his family cottage to his service in the

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ambulance corps in

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. The first of Hemingway's stories to feature Nick Adams was published in his 1925 collection ''

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'', with Adams appearing as a young child in the collection's first story, "

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 Hemingway's first American volume of ...

". All Nick Adams stories were later collected in a 1972 book, published after Hemingway's death, titled ''

The Nick Adams Stories ''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 li ...

''. They are, for the most part, stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in ''The Nick Adams Stories'', they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's life.

''The Nick Adams Stories''

The Northern Woods

* " Three Shots" * "

" * " 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 ...

" * " The Indians Moved Away"

On His Own

* "The Light of the World" * "

The Battler "The Battler" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 New York edition of '' In Our Time'', by Boni & Liveright.Oliver (1999), 21 The story is the fifth in the collection to feature Nick Adams, Hemingway's autobiogr ...

" * "

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" * " The Last Good Country" * " Crossing the Mississippi"

War

* " Night Before Battle" * "'Nick sat against the wall ...'" * "

Now I Lay Me "Now I Lay Me" is a short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. Th ...

" * "

A Way You'll Never Be "A Way You'll Never Be" is a 1933 short story by Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner in the short story collection ''Winner Take Nothing ''Winner Take Nothing'' is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway' ...

" * "

In Another Country "In Another Country" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway. It was published in Hemingway's 1927 short story collection, ''Men Without Women''. The story deals with WWI soldiers receiving treatment in Italy during the war. Summ ...

A Soldier Home

* " Big Two-Hearted River" * " The End of Something" * " The Three-Day Blow" * " Summer People"

Company of Two

* " Wedding Day" * " On Writing" * " An Alpine Idyll" * " Cross-Country Snow" * " Fathers and Sons"

References

External links and references

* Hemingway, Ernest. ''The Nick Adams Stories.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.
''New York Times'' review of ''The Nick Adams Stories''

The Great Michigan Read, a statewide reading program featuring ''The Nick Adams Stories''
Author surrogates Characters in American novels of the 20th century Ernest Hemingway Literary characters introduced in 1924 Fictional World War I veterans {{novel-char-stub