Short Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Few writers have compressed the full weight of human experience into such economical prose as Ernest Hemingway, and Short Stories — a curated selection introduced by David Hughes and illustrated by Ian Beck — stands as a masterclass in the art of restraint. From the sun-baked plains of Africa to the smoky bars of post-war Europe, these tales chronicle soldiers, hunters, lovers, and the quietly desperate, all rendered with Hemingway's signature iceberg precision — where what is left unsaid reverberates louder than the words on the page. Published in 1986 by The Folio Society, this beautifully produced edition presents some of the twentieth century's most celebrated short fiction, including enduring works such as Hills Like White Elephants, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Hemingway's stripped-back style — forged in the journalistic trenches and polished by the lost generation's disillusionment — argues that truth lives in dialogue, gesture, and silence, never in sentimentality. Hughes's thoughtful introduction contextualises the selection within Hemingway's broader literary legacy, while Beck's illustrations lend a timeless visual atmosphere to stories that continue to define what it means to be alive, and afraid, and searching.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, The Folio Society
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Few writers have compressed the full weight of human experience into such economical prose as Ernest Hemingway, and Short Stories — a curated selection introduced by David Hughes and illustrated by Ian Beck — stands as a masterclass in the art of restraint. From the sun-baked plains of Africa to the smoky bars of post-war Europe, these tales chronicle soldiers, hunters, lovers, and the quietly desperate, all rendered with Hemingway's signature iceberg precision — where what is left unsaid reverberates louder than the words on the page. Published in 1986 by The Folio Society, this beautifully produced edition presents some of the twentieth century's most celebrated short fiction, including enduring works such as Hills Like White Elephants, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Hemingway's stripped-back style — forged in the journalistic trenches and polished by the lost generation's disillusionment — argues that truth lives in dialogue, gesture, and silence, never in sentimentality. Hughes's thoughtful introduction contextualises the selection within Hemingway's broader literary legacy, while Beck's illustrations lend a timeless visual atmosphere to stories that continue to define what it means to be alive, and afraid, and searching.