Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A Day's Wait, A Simple Enquiry, A Very Short Story, A Way You'll Never Be, Big Two-Hearted River, Cat in the Rain, Che Ti Dice La Patria?, Fathers and Sons (short story), Fifty Grand, Hills Like White Elephants, Indian Camp, In Another Country, Now I Lay Me, Soldier's Home, The Battler, The Capital of the World (short story), The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, The End of Something, The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio, The Killers (short story), The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (story), The Three-Day Blow, The Undefeated (short story), Up in Michigan. Excerpt: "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is heard just twice. The story explores the destructive qualities of war which is countered by the healing and regenerative powers of nature. When it was published, critics praised Hemingway's sparse writing style and it became an important work in his canon. The story is one of Hemingway's earliest pieces to employ his Iceberg Theory of writing; a modernist approach to prose in which the underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than explicitly stated. "Big Two-Hearted River" is almost exclusively descriptive and intentionally devoid of plot. Hemingway was influenced by the visual innovations of Cezanne's paintings and adapted the painter's idea of presenting background minutiae in lower focus than the main image. In this story, the small details of a fishing trip are explored in great depth, while the landscape setting, and most obviously...