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Ernest Hemingway. The Greatest Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Greatest Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Table of Contents
The Old Man and the Sea
The Torrents of Spring. A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race
PART ONE. Red and Black Laughter
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
PART TWO. The Struggle for Life
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
PART THREE. Men in War and the Death of Society
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
PART FOUR. The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Author’s Final Note to the Reader
UP IN MICHIGAN
OUT OF SEASON
MY OLD MAN
In Our Time (1924 edition)
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
ON THE QUAI AT SMYRNA
CHAPTER I
INDIAN CAMP
CHAPTER II
THE DOCTOR AND THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
CHAPTER III
THE END OF SOMETHING
CHAPTER IV
THE THREE DAY BLOW
CHAPTER V
THE BATTLER
CHAPTER VI
A VERY SHORT STORY
CHAPTER VII
SOLDIER’S HOME
CHAPTER VIII
THE REVOLUTIONIST
CHAPTER IX
MR. AND MRS. ELLIOT
CHAPTER X
CAT IN THE RAIN
CHAPTER XI
OUT OF SEASON
CHAPTER XII
CROSS COUNTRY SNOW
CHAPTER XIII
MY OLD MAN
CHAPTER XIV
BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER (Version 1)
CHAPTER XV
BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER (Version 2)
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
TO-DAY 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
Part I. PORTRAIT OF MR. WHEELER IN MONTREUX
Part II. MR. JOHNSON TALKS ABOUT IT AT VEVEY
Part III. THE SON OF A FELLOW MEMBER AT TERRITET
A DAY’S WAIT
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DEAD1
WINE OF WYOMING
THE GAMBLER, THE NUN, AND THE RADIO
FATHERS AND SONS
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Ernest Hemingway
50 Stories in One Volume
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The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boat and the fish came out. He came out unendingly and water poured from his sides. He was bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his sides showed wide and a light lavender. His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out.
"He is two feet longer than the skiff," the old man said. The line was going out fast but steadily and the fish was not panicked. The old man was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking strength. He knew that if he could not slow the fish with a steady pressure the fish could take out all the line and break it.
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