The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of
Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed
and popular works of short fiction.Selected from Winner Take Nothing,
Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine
Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of
Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the
autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time
in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of
Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay
and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the
title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff
in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in
their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in
their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of
America's master storytellers at the top of his form.