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Men Without Women

Ernest Hemingway

Paperback | Pages: 153 pages

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Title	:	Men Without Women
Author	:	Ernest Hemingway
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 153 pages
Published	:	2004 by Scribner (first published October 1927)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. Literature. American

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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.

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Original Title:	Men Without Women
ISBN:	0684825864 (ISBN13: 9780684825861)
Edition Language:	English

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I had two short story collections before me with the title 'Men Without Women', one by Ernest Hemingway, the other by Haruki Murakami. I went with Hemingway's because it was slimmer and had a nice cover photograph of some men sitting at a doorway drinking beer and smoking cigarettes (yeah, I'm shallow that way).Anyway, as is typical for short story collections, some are good, some are so-so. The better ones require a bit of thinking, which is always a good thing. My favourites, in no particular

Extract from Ten Indians: My hearts broken, he thought. If I feel this way my heart must be broken.After a while he heard his father blow out the lamp and go into his own room. He heard a wind come up in the trees outside and felt it come in cool through the screen. He lay for a long time with his face in the pillow, and after a while he forgot to think about Prudence and finally he went to sleep. When he awoke in the night he heard the wind in the hemlock trees outside the cottage and the waves

There's something I'm missing here. Probably I'm not the right audience, or perhaps there's something that I don't know about how these stories are meant to be read. It's not that I didn't like the stories, or they are too hard to read or anything like that. These are mostly mediocre stories, most of the time quite pointless.I generally feel like I'm missing the context. After an acceptable first story, The Undefeated, comes basically nothing after nothing. Most of the stories are pointless;

There is this story from Hemingway called 'Hills like white elephants' and my English teacher gave it to me when I was 16. It is still one of the best pieces of literature I have ever read. I give it to my students as well, not to all of them, but to adults and those who can intellectually digest it. Every time I do it, I learn something new although I know this story by heart but Hemingway confuses readers with setting and symbolism and when you have something very confusing in front of you,

Hemingways Men Without Women is a compilation of short stories with unique themes and protagonists. However I dont have the slightest clue as to why the famous author chose this title, which I found completely misleading. I do not know what I was expecting but not this. The narration was so dry and prosaic that I literally dragged myself to the end of this 100-page little book. I guess I had such high hopes for it that I ended up heartbroken and disillusioned.

Recommended for: Tough guys with a gentle heart.The blurb on the cover read " In these tales shorn of sensitivity and femininity,one meets real mengunslingers, bullfighters,soldiers, jockeys,gangsters--," I stopped there,frowning--aren't doctors,academics,bankers (ok,not bankers) real men too?Ah,but then you have to remember Hemingway's culture of machismo*: these are 'real men' cause they've looked death in the eye,they have gone to the edge & come back- mortally wounded yet never conceding

So its a town full of bright boys. The KillersJoseph Wood Krutch called the stories in Men Without Women "Sordid little catastrophes" involving "very vulgar people, an assessment I find that observation ungenerous and vulgar in its own way, to miss the subtley and elegance of the prose, to miss the humanity and vulnerability underneath the bravado and bullfighting and boxing. I know Hemingway is out of fashion at the moment as supposed misogynist and drunk, but I think its somewhat too narrow to