In Our Time

The book that changed American prose forever.

Before The Sun Also Rises, before A Farewell to Arms, there was In Our Time—Ernest Hemingway's first collection of stories, and the volume that introduced the world to his revolutionary style. It remains one of the most influential short story collections ever published.

A boy learns to fish in the Michigan woods. A bullfighter waits in the chapel before the kill. A soldier returns from the war and cannot sleep. Across fifteen stories and sixteen interchapters (brief, haunting vignettes of war, bullfighting, and violence), Hemingway builds a portrait of a world shattered by World War I—and the people trying to live in its aftermath. Nick Adams, Hemingway's semi-autobiographical alter ego, appears throughout: as a child watching his father deliver a baby by Caesarean section, as a young man wounded in Italy, as a traumatized veteran fishing alone in the backcountry. The stories are spare, muscular, and elliptical. What is left unsaid matters as much as what is written.

This is Hemingway at his most experimental and pure: a collection about courage, cowardice, loneliness, and the things men do to keep from feeling. In Our Time is not an easy book—but it is an essential one.

• Frequently cited as one of the most important short story collections in English

• Introduced Hemingway's "Iceberg Theory" of writing: omit everything that can be omitted

• Includes the classic stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The End of Something," "The Three-Day Blow," and "Big Two-Hearted River"

Available in multiple formats:

• Paperback & Hardcover: Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last.

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• Audiobook: Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged, available on all major audiobook platforms.

A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears—or the perfect gift for anyone who believes that the best stories are told in what remains unsaid.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I—an experience that shaped much of his work. In Our Time was first published in the United States in 1925 (a smaller, limited edition had appeared in Paris in 1924). The collection was championed by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson, who recognized its radical innovation. The stories featuring Nick Adams—based on Hemingway's own childhood in Michigan and his war experiences—would become the foundation of his reputation as a master of the short story. His other major works include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway died by suicide in 1961.