The Snows of Kilimanjaro (book)
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- For the film, see: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film).
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...
and Other Stories is a collection of short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
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...
, published in 1961. The title story
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of...
is sometimes considered the best story Hemingway ever wrote. All of the short stories included in this book were earlier published together in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on 14 October 1938....
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The collection includes the following stories:
- "The Snows of KilimanjaroThe Snows of Kilimanjaro"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of...
" - "A Clean, Well-Lighted PlaceA Clean, Well-Lighted Place"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It was later included in his 1933 collection, Winner Take Nothing.- Plot synopsis:...
" - "A Day's WaitA Day's Wait"A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his 1933 short story collection The Snows of Kilimanjaro.The story focuses on a nine-year old boy and his father that calls him Schatz . When the boy gets the flu, his temperature rises to 102 degrees...
" - "The Gambler, the Nun, and the RadioThe Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio"The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his collection of short stories The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The original title was "Give us a Prescription, Doctor".The story takes place in a hospital run by a convent...
" - "Fathers and SonsFathers and Sons (short story)"Fathers and Sons" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published 1933, in the collection Winner Take Nothing. It later appeared in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories and The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories...
" - "In Another CountryIn 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...
" - "The KillersThe 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...
" - "A Way You'll Never BeA Way You'll Never Be"A Way You'll Never Be" is a 1933 short story by Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner in the short story collection Winner Take Nothing. It features the character Nick Adams as he recovers from a traumatic head wound....
" - "Fifty Grand"
- "The Short Happy Life of Francis MacomberThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"...
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