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In Our Time 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition, Kindle Edition

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A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut.

When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories “Indian Camp” and “The Three Day Blow,” and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision.

Now recognized as one of the most important short story collections of twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides key insights into Hemingway’s later works.

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"Hemingway's language is fibrous and athletic, colloquial and fresh, hard and clean... he packs a whole character into a phrase, an entire situation into a sentence or two. He makes each word count three or four ways."
—The New York Times

“There’s something immortal about these short pieces. They are absolute miracles of prose, of description, of evocation. They take you there.”
—Edna O'Brien

“Ernest Hemingway is a new, honest, un-literary transcriber of life – a Writer.”
—Time

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

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No writer has been more efficiently overshadowed by his imitators than Ernest Hemingway. From the moment he unleashed his stripped-down, declarative sentences on the world, he began breeding entire generations of miniature Hemingways, who latched on to his subtractive style without ever wondering what he'd removed, or why. And his tendency to lapse into self-parody during the latter half of his career didn't help matters. But In Our Time, which Hemingway published in 1925, reminds us of just how fresh and accomplished his writing could be--and gives at least an inkling of why Ezra Pound could call him the finest prose stylist in the world.

In his first commercially published book (following the small-press appearance of Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1924), Hemingway was still wearing his influences on his sleeve. The vignettes between each story smack of Gertrude Stein, whose minimalist punctuation and clodhopping rhythms he was happy to borrow. "My Old Man" sounds like Huck Finn on the Grand Tour: "Well, we went to live at Maisons-Lafitte, where just about everybody lives except the gang at Chantilly, with a Mrs. Meyers that runs a boarding house. Maisons is about the swellest place to live I've ever seen in all my life." But in the "The Battler" or "Indian Camp" or "Big Two-Hearted River," Hemingway finds his own voice, shunning the least hint of rhetorical inflation and sticking to just the facts, ma'am. His reluctance to traffic in high-flown abstraction has often been chalked up to postwar disillusion--as though he were too much of a simpleton to make deliberate stylistic decisions. Still, nobody can read "Soldier's Home" without drawing a certain connection between the two. Returning home to Oklahoma, the hero finds that his tales of combat are now a bankrupt genre: Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne forest and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories. If we are to believe Michael Reynolds and Ann Douglas, this passage reflects the author's own dreary homecoming as a member of the lost generation. It's also a fine example of a surprisingly rare phenomenon, at least at this point in his career: Hemingway being funny. --James Marcus

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“There's something immortal about these short pieces. They are absolute miracles of prose, of description, of evocation.” Edna O'Brien

Succinct and lucid in his prose style, American novelist and short story writer Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) had an enormous influence over authors in the twentieth century. A member of the expatriate circle called the Lost Generation, Hemingway cultivated a larger-than-life image of vigorous masculinity complemented by an intense sensitivity.

Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. The stories were widely praised for what later would be considered the author’s hallmark style: uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism. Their themes of alienation, loss, and grief continue the work Hemingway began earlier in his career. The collection includes two of his best-known Nick Adams stories: “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River.”
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000FC0Q66
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction edition (July 25, 2002)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 25, 2002
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 389 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09244ZDT7

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Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.

In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style.

Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms.

He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

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Erol Esen

Hemingway via D. H. Lawrence

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2010

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This is not my review, it belongs to D. H. Lawrence (b1885-d1930) as I read it in the book 'Selected Literary Criticism', edited by Anthony Beal. I'm copying Lawrence's review of Hemingway's 'In Our Time' here because it is an outstanding review others who come to Amazon ought to read:

" In Our Time is the last of the four American books, and Mr. Hemingway has accepted the goal. He keeps on making flights, but he has no illusion about landing anywhere. He knows it will be nowhere every time.

In Our Time calls itself a book of stories, but it isn't that. It is a series of successive sketches from a man's life, and makes a fragmentary novel. The first scenes, by one of the big lakes in America--probably Superior--are the best; when Nick is a boy. Then come fragments of war--on the Italian front. Then a soldier back home, very late, in the little town way west in Oklahoma. Then a young American and wife in post-war Europe; a long sketch about an American jockey in Milan and Paris; then Nick is back again in the Lake Superior region, getting off the train at a burnt-out town, and tramping across the empty country to camp by a trout-stream. Trout is the one passion life has him--and this won't last long.

It is a short book: and it does not pretend to be about one man. But it is. It is as much as we need know of the man's life. The sketches are short, sharp, vivid, and most of them excellent. (The 'mottoes' in front seem a little affected.) And these few sketches are enough to create the man and all his history: we need know no more.

Nick is a type one meets in the more wild and woolly regions of the United States. He is the remains of the lone trapper and cowboy. Nowadays he is educated, and through with everything. It is a state of conscious, accepted indifference to everything except freedom from work and the moment's interest. Mr. Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. Pne wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: getting connected up. Don't get connected up. If oyu get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! `Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that!

Mr. Hemingway's sketches, for this reason, are excellent: so short, like striking a match, lighting a brief sensational cigarette, and it's over. His young love-affair ends as one throws a cigarette-end away. `It isn't fun any more.'--`Everything's gone to hell inside me.'

It is really honest. And it explains a great deal of sentimentality. When a thing has gone to hell inside you, your sentimentalism tries to pretend it hasn't. But Mr. Hemingway is through with the sentimentalism. `It isn't fun any more. I guess I'll beat it.'

And he beats it, to somewhere else. In the end he'll be a sort of tramp, endlessly moving on for the sake of moving away from where he is. This is a negative goal, and Mr. Hemingway is really good, because he's perfectly straight about it. He is like Krebs, in that devastating Oklahoma sketch: he doesn't love anybody, and it nauseates him to have to pretend he does. He doesn't even want to love anybody; he doesn't want to go anywhere, he doesn't want to do anything. He wants just to lounge around and maintain a healthy state of nothingness inside himself. And why shouldn't he, since that is exactly and sincerely what he feels? If he really doesn't care, then why should he care? Anyhow, he doesn't."

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I like anything that’s written by Hemingway.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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The circumstances and situations depicted in “In Our Time” are ones that people who have been alive during this era can relate too and may jar our memories to our own experiences. It provided me with a lot to think about.

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R. Sullivan

I don't see the appeal

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2023

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First time reading Hemingway and I don't see the appeal. Maybe this just wasn't the best place to start. I'll try a novel or a collection of short stories next I guess but it'll be a while before I do.

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Michael

This Collection is More Than First Meets the Eye

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2012

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I bought a collection of short stories ( This is My Time ) that made reference to Hemingway's In Our Time, when I realized I had somehow managed to wend my way through school never having encountered Hemingway.

I looked up the book, In Our Time, and after recovering from the initial shock of seeing Simon and Schuster's shameful price of $10.99 for a slim volume of short stories, bought the volume.

I read the first story, On the River Quai at Smyrna, and was a bit perplexed as the story begins abruptly without a clear setting, plot, or defined characters. It ends as it began. Next I found under the heading of Chapter 1 a sort of military vignette in but a single paragraph. Then a story titled Indian Camp began. This was an interesting story of a doctor and his young son coming to the aid of a pregnant Indian woman. This is more along the lines of what I had expected. I was pleased until the heading Chapter 2 appeared, yet again with another military vignette in a single paragraph.

Okay, now I knew the author was toying with me and this collection was purposeful and complex. I would need some help to understand the author's plan and methodology. To this end I bought a dead tree book ( Hemingway's Short Stories (Cliffs Notes) ) to help me. I also found an online site called SparkNotes. These were indispensable to fully appreciate this collection of stories.

The main insights gained were that the stories present the chaos and terror of World War I and that the character Nick Adams is partially autobiographical.

There is much to commend this small collection and I encourage others to dig in and discover Hemingway.

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Steve Baker

Post WW1 Mindset

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2023

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PTSD symptoms after the war got the name Shellshock. Hemingway gives me a view of how my grandfather may have suffered.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2023

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After finishing this read, I’ve grown to appreciate classic literature. The contextual materials essential for fully appreciating this remarkable short-story collection. I recommend reading this, even if it’s only once.

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Mark

Well Binded

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023

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Well binded. Excellent paper quality. Good reading/study/softcopy edition.

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Viktor Wolfe

Don't Waste Your Time

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2016

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Don't Waste Your Time
I'm not entirely sure what I just read, but I'm pretty sure ... no, scratch that. This is my probing question: 1925 or not, how did Hemingway ever get this published? Or: since this was so terrible, why did publishers publish his SECOND book? I seriously cannot think of anything positive to say about this book. It starkly reminded me of a high-schooler trying to write his first novel. (Believe me, I've BEEN there and done that. I know what they look like!) These stories were bland, pointless, and devoid of any action that would even remotely raise interest. Hemingway has a short list of fiction, but it might have done him well to have struck this one from his list!

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I. Jones

Excellent collection of Hemingway's early short stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2019

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This is an excellent collection of Hemingway’s early short stories, originally published in 1925. In A Moveable Feast, the author’s memoir of his days as a young writer in Paris, he describes the struggle he had to sell his stories, and when you read this collection you wonder what publishers and readers were looking for in those days. It seems to me that these stories would do credit to a much more mature writer than Hemingway was when he wrote them. You can wonder how much of the material is autobiographical, and it’s obvious that Hemingway drew heavily on his knowledge of trout fishing, skiing, horse racing, the Alps, the American Mid-West. What is more valuable though is to see how his characteristic and unique style was developing. He called it the Iceberg Theory, and it’s something you either love or hate. It means that what’s not expressed is as important as what is there on the page. It’s as if what we see in published form is a fraction of what Hemingway actually wrote, because when he was redrafting he stripped out anything he considered extraneous: adjectives, adverbs, filler clauses. Lesser writers feel a need to describe everything. Hemingway doesn’t. He gives you the bones, and that’s all you need. It means that when two characters are having a conversation you get the idea that they arrived in a café by magic and the double whiskies arrived by magic and they keep on coming every two minutes…..It’s because Hemingway doesn’t feel the need to describe how they crossed the street to the café or asked for a table for two or studied the menu…..He just gets on with the important stuff. You can dismiss Hemingway’s writing as just ultra-macho nonsense about masculine things that are totally unfashionable these days like hunting or bullfighting; or you can look under that tough, lean exterior and see the emotion that’s unexpressed
beneath. The Nick Adams stories are a fine early example of this. My only caveat with this book is that it is rather thin (and can easily be read in a day), and if you’re really into Hemingway you’d get more for your money if you bought The First Forty-Nine Stories or the Collected Short Stories, i.e. editions that have everything that’s here but with a lot more besides.

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Matt

My old Man was absolutely amazing. The writing style is so modern feeling

Reviewed in Canada on October 15, 2016

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My old Man was absolutely amazing. The writing style is so modern feeling.

vince2661

impeccable

Reviewed in France on February 18, 2014

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j'ai du suite à une erreur, demander l'échange de l'article. non seulement celui-ci m'a été remboursé, mais en plus il n'y avait pas besoin de le renvoyer. Je l'ai donc gardé.

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