The Complete Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 1987
The iceberg theory of fiction: what's left out matters as much as what's kept. Hemingway's influence on every subsequent short story writer is total. This complete collection includes "Hills Like White Elephants," the platonic ideal of the form.
The case against
Bulk is the problem: the Finca Vigía edition shovels in unfinished drafts and weak late work Hemingway never chose to publish, diluting the twenty stories that matter. Elsewhere the manner hardens into self-parody, all wounded men being terse at women who barely exist. The iceberg works at six pages; across seventy stories you start noticing how much is just water.
Short Stories · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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