In Our Time

Stories (Scribner Classic)

Paperback, 156 pages

English language

Published Feb. 10, 1970 by Collier Books.

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978-0-684-71802-6
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In Our Time is the title of Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and of a collection of vignettes published in 1924 in France titled in our time. Its title is derived from the English Book of Common Prayer, "Give peace in our time, O Lord". The collection's publication history was complex. It began with six prose vignettes published by Ezra Pound in the 1923 edition of The Little Review, to which Hemingway added twelve vignettes and had published in Paris in 1924 as the in our time edition (with a lower-case title). He wrote fourteen short stories for the 1925 edition, including "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River", two of his best-known Nick Adams stories. He composed "On the Quai at Smyrna" for the 1930 edition. The stories' themes – of alienation, loss, grief, separation – continue the work …

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  • Modern fiction
  • Short stories
  • Literature: Classics
  • Classics
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Autobiographical fiction, American
  • Adams, Nick (Fictitious character)
  • Adventure stories, American
  • Fiction

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