The Nick Adams Stories is a volume of short stories written by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). Hemingway's short stories which featured the character Nick Adams

Nick Adams (character)

Nick Adams is a fictional character, the protagonist of two dozen short stories by American author Ernest Hemingway, written in the 1920s and 30s...

 were compiled in one volume and republished posthumously in 1972. The Nick Adams Stories includes 24 stories and sketches, 8 of which were previously unpublished. Some of Hemingway's earliest work such as "Indian Camp

Indian Camp

"Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine Transatlantic Review in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in the American edition of Hemingway's first volume of short stories In Our Time...

" is represented, as well as some of his best known stories such as "Big Two-Hearted River

Big Two-Hearted River

"Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his first collection of stories, In Our Time. The story is generally viewed as an account of a healing process for Hemingway's autobiographical character Nick Adams, recently returned...

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The volume is divided into sections:

The first section, called Northern Woods, includes the following stories:

• "Three Shots"
• "Indian Camp
  Indian Camp
  "Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine Transatlantic Review in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in the American edition of Hemingway's first volume of short stories In Our Time...
  
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• "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
• "Ten Indians"
• "The Indians Moved Away"

The second section, called On His Own, includes these stories:

• "The Light of the World
  The Light of the World
  The Light of the World is an allegorical painting by William Holman Hunt representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to...
  
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• "The Battler
  The Battler
  "The Battler" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was included in the collection In Our Time .In the story, Nick Adams is thrown from a train and finds temporary shelter at a campfire. There, he meets an ex-boxer named Ad Francis. Francis takes an immediate liking to Adams, who he...
  
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• "The Killers
  The Killers (short story)
  '"The Killers"' is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It first appeared to the public in 1927 in Scribner's Magazine. How much Hemingway received for the literary piece is unknown, but some sources state it was $200. Historians have some documents showing that the working title of the piece was...
  
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• "The Last Good Country"
• "Crossing the Mississippi"

The third section, titled War, has

• "Night Before Landing"
• "Nick sat against the wall...."
• "Now I Lay Me
  Now I Lay Me
  "Now I Lay Me" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway.The story is about Nick Adams, one of Hemingway's recurring characters, forcing himself to stay awake at night in an army tent during World War I. He is afraid that if he goes to sleep in the dark his soul will escape him. Nick is...
  
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• "A Way You'll Never Be"
• "In Another Country
  In Another Country
  "In Another Country" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway.It is about an ambulance corps member in Milan during World War I. Although unnamed, he is assumed to be "Nick" a character Hemingway made to represent himself. He has an injured knee and visits a hospital daily for...
  
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The fifth section, Soldier Home, consists of

• "Big Two-Hearted River
  Big Two-Hearted River
  "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his first collection of stories, In Our Time. The story is generally viewed as an account of a healing process for Hemingway's autobiographical character Nick Adams, recently returned...
  
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• "The End of Something
  The End of Something
  "The End of Something" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his collection of short stories In Our Time.-Publication History:According to notes on the manuscript, Hemingway wrote “The End of Something” in March 1924...
  
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• "The Three-Day Blow
  The Three-Day Blow
  “The Three-Day Blow” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in his collection In Our Time in 1925. The story features Nick Adams, one of Hemingway’s recurring protagonists, appearing in at least a dozen of Hemingway’s stories written during the 20s and 30s...
  
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• "Summer People"

The final section, Company of Two, ends the volume with

• "Wedding Day"
• "On Writing"
• "An Alpine Idyll"
• "Cross-Country Snow"
• "Fathers and Sons"

Published after he died in 1961, like his other posthumous work, The Nick Adams Stories may have been reworked and edited in a manner he never intended. One reviewer for The New York Times had this to say about one of the stories:

Alone, "Three Shots" stands as a vignette of a boy's fear, accorded sympathy by his father and impatience by his uncle. As part of the stark and spare "Indian Camp," however, it was clearly excess baggage and, knowing that it was cut out, one can only read it with admiration for the nascent and ruthlessly true artistic impulse that caused its excision.

Contrary to the above are those who welcome publication of the new Nick Adams material which fills in chronological gaps of the autobiographical character's experience, and thus shows much of Hemingway's own life that remained unpublished.