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CliffsNotes on Hemingway's Short Stories covers the best of Ernest Hemingway's short-story output. The first writer to define a distinctly American literature, Hemingway wrote himself into most of his fiction. A man's man, Hemingway writes of adventures in Africa and the World Wars, as well as grand hunting and fishing expeditions. Both critically successful and popular, "Papa" Hemingway paints an American landscape with words, creating masterpieces of style and voice for his readers.

With CliffsNotes on Hemingway's Short Stories, you get summaries, commentary, critical essays, character studies, and study help on the following 12 stories:

• Indian Camp
  
  
• The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
  
  
• The End of Something
  
  
• The Three-Day Blow
  
  
• The Killers
  
  
• A Way You'll Never Be
  
  
• In Another Country
  
  
• Big Two-Hearted River -- Parts I & II
  
  
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
  
  
• Hills Like White Elephants
  
  
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
  
  
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  
  

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