Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
To present some of Hemingway's most important and intriguing early works. In these 14 stories, Hemingway begins to consider the themes that his later works would occupy: victims of war, the difficult relationship between men and women, sportsmanship and sportsmanship. In "A Banal Story," Hemingway pays a long tribute to the famous Matador Mahera. It tells the story of an Italian major in another country, recovering from the wounds of war and mourning the untimely death of his wife. "Killers" is a difficult story about two Chicago hitmen and their potential victims. Nick Adams appears in The Ten Indians, where he is betrayed, possibly by his Indian girlfriend Prudence. And "Hills like white elephants" is a nuanced, heart-wrenching discussion of abortion by a young couple. Humiliated, harsh, and subtly expressive, these stories show how young Hemingway became America's best story writer.
