In Our Time / Nick Adams Stories (9)

In Our Time / Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway

I first read In Our Time in a college lit class. I remember being captivated by the Nick Adams stories because many of them took place in Northern Michigan. This is an area I spent my entire life around, and I knew many of the places that he mentions in his stories. After reading Hunting With Hemingway, I had to re-read this book, as many of the stories deal with hunting and fishing, and are set in the area I know so well. I won't go into detail about the stories as so many other sites to a better job than me.

In Our Time was published in 1925 and, the collection of short stories marked Hemingway's US debut. The original book contained:
* On the Quai at Smyrna (added to the 1930 edition)
N * Indian Camp
N * The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
N * The End of Something
N * The Three-Day Blow
N * The Battler
* A Very Short Story
* Soldier's Home
* The Revolutionist
* Mr. And Mrs. Elliot
* Cat in the Rain
* Out of Season
N * Cross-Country Snow
* My Old Man
N * Big Two-Hearted River: Part One
N * Big Two-Hearted River: Part Two

The N indicates a Nick Adams story. Hemingway also wrote some more stories with the Nick character, which is loosely based on his experiences as a boy. In 1972 another book was published that contained all the Nick Adams stories in one volume. In addition the the (N)ick stories above it also included.

* In Another Country
* A Way You'll Never Be
* The Killers
* Ten Indians
* Fathers And Sons
* Now I Lay Me.

I mentioned reading Hemingway in college. This volume was one of the few books I kept from college... however I can no longer find it. Perhaps it is one of my boxes of books, or perhaps it walked off. Years ago I bought The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, so I just read the stories from here.

I am not a huge Hemingway fan, but these stories are very engaging and I can read them over and over. It was nice to sit down and read them at once again.. I will have to do this more often :)