The First Forty-Nine Stories

"There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like... In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused." Ernest Hemingway, from the preface of this collection of short stories, which includes ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’, the ‘Winner Take Nothing’ collection, and the ‘Men Without Women’ collection.