At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, "Up in Michigan." Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters.

The Short Stories, introduced here with a revealing preface by the author, chronicles Hemingway's development as a writer, from his earliest attempts in the chapbook Three Stories and Ten Poems, published in Paris in 1923, to his more mature accomplishments in Winner Take Nothing.

Contents:

• Preface by Ernest Hemingway (1938)
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• The Capital of the World
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Old Man at the Bridge
• Up in Michigan
• On the Quai at Smyrna
• 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
• The Undefeated
• In Another Country
• Hills Like White Elephants
• 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
• After the Storm
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• 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
• Fathers and Sons