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Fourteen stories of soldiers, boxers, bullfighters and gangsters, including 'The Killers', 'Hills Like White Elephants' and 'In Another Country', in which most of what matters goes unsaid.
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The Sun Also Rises
American expatriates drink, fight, and fall apart in 1920s Paris and Pamplona, trying to find meaning after the war took it all away.
In Our Time
Hemingway's first story collection, with brief vignettes of war and bullfights between the stories, among them the early Nick Adams stories of the Michigan woods and Big Two-Hearted River.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Fitzgerald stories from 'The Ice Palace' and 'Winter Dreams' to 'The Rich Boy', and the title story of a reformed drinker who returns to Paris after the crash to win back his young daughter.
Redeployment
Twelve stories from Marines who served in Iraq, capturing the moral vertigo of modern warfare with precision and devastating honesty.
Sarajevo Marlboro
Short stories of life in Sarajevo during the siege of the 1990s, of ordinary people in an extraordinary war.
Strange Pilgrims
Twelve stories of Latin Americans in Europe, written and rewritten over eighteen years: a deposed Caribbean president in Geneva, a woman who stops to use a telephone and ends up in an asylum in Spain, a ghost in a Tuscan castle.
In a Free State
Linked stories of people adrift in foreign places; in the title novella, two English expatriates drive across an East African country in the middle of a coup.
The Question of Bruno
Stories of Bosnia and exile, among them the novella Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls, about a young Bosnian stranded in Chicago when the war begins.
The Wall
Five stories, among them a Republican prisoner in the Spanish Civil War spending the night before his execution, and a bourgeois boy who grows up to be a fascist.
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Stories told by Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana after the war, of the lives and loves they carried with them.
From Here to Eternity
In 1941 at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, a bugler and boxer, refuses to box for his new company and is given the treatment, while his first sergeant begins an affair with the captain's wife.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.