Hemingway’s Short Stories
Frederic J. Svoboda | Filed under: Hemingway Studies, Literature & Literary Criticism, Recent Releases, Teaching Hemingway
Sometimes characterized as the most significant author since Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway was an acknowledged master of the short story, with his groundbreaking style and its apparent simplicity and honesty changing the nature of English prose fiction. While in the early 1920s some mainstream editors seemed baffled by their subtlety, today his stories are mainstays in the classroom, taught at all levels from secondary school through university graduate courses.