In Our Time

In Our Time marked the American DEBUT of the young Ernest Hemingway. A selection of fourteen short stories and fifteen vignettes, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple use of language to convey complex emotions, earning Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein.

In Our Time features famous Nick Adams stories such as "Indian Camp," in which Nick gets a hard lesson in the reality of birth and death, "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three-Day Blow," "The Battler," and "Big Two-Hearted River," Parts I and II. There are scenes of war, bullfights, and brutality, but also moments of humor, albeit dark, and beauty. In Our Time captures a moment in a master's career, in which we are given a hint of what is to come . . .

Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, it also provides a key to Hemingway's later works.