This is an excellent introduction to the wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. It contains the full text of Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises), Ernest Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from three of his greatest works of fiction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, and For Whom the Bell Tolls; 25 complete short stories, including "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Big Two-Hearted River," "The Killers," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; and the breathtaking epilogue to Death in the Afternoon.

"Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality."—Guardian (London)