"The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories" contains ten of
Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.
Selected from "Winner TakeNothing, Men Without Women, " and "The
Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, " this collection
includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to
be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical
Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in
Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life
of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation,
heresay, and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos
Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put
all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill
four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their
originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in
this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the
top of his form.