Catalog

Details

• ISBN: 9780684843322
• Physical Description: xviii, 650 pages ; 21 cm
• Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2003.
• Copyright: ©1987.
• Formatted Contents Note:
  Part I. "The first forty-nine" -- Preface to "The first forty-nine" -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber -- The capital of the world -- The snows of Kilimanjaro -- Old man at the bridge -- Up in Michigan -- On the Quai at Smyrna -- Indian camp -- The doctor and the doctor's wife -- The end of something -- The three-day blow -- The battler -- A very short story -- Soldier's home -- The revolutionist -- Mr. and Mrs. Elliot -- Cat in the rain -- Out of season -- Cross-country snow -- My old man -- Big two-hearted river: part I -- Big two-hearted river: part II -- The undefeated -- In another country -- Hills like white elephants -- The killers -- Che ti dice la patria? -- Fifty grand -- A simple enquiry -- Ten indians -- A canary for one -- An Alpine idyll -- A pursuit race -- Today is friday -- Banal story -- Now I lay me -- After the storm -- A clean, well-lighted place -- The light of the world -- God rest you merry, gentlemen -- The sea change -- A way you'll never be -- The mother of a queen -- One reader writes -- Homage to Switzerland -- A day's wait -- A natural history of the dead -- Wine of Wyoming -- The gambler, the nun, and the radio -- Fathers and Sons.
  Part II. Short stories published in books or magazines subsequent to "the first forty-nine" -- One trip across -- The tradesman's return -- The denunciation -- The buttefly and the tank -- Night before battle -- Under the ridge -- Nobody ever dies -- The good lion -- The faithful bull -- Get a seeing-eyed dog -- A man of the world -- Summer people -- The last good country -- An African story.
  Part III. Previously unpublished fiction -- A train trip -- The porter -- Black ass at the cross roads -- Landscape with figures -- I guess everything reminds you of something -- Great news for the mainland -- The strange country.

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