in our time
Ratings15
Average rating3.7
15
Ratings15
Average rating3.7
A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories “Indian Camp” and “The Three Day Blow,” and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision. Now recognized as one of the most important short story collections of twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides key insights into Hemingway’s later works.
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I'm not one for short stories usually, but these all seemed interconnected. They seemed to be more about the feeling of them, seeing the scene in your mind, than about the story being told. The characters are as vivid with a few lines as if a whole novel had been written about them.
I read this collection of short stories and vignettes for my American Literature course this semester. We first read the 1924 version, which only had the vignettes, and then read the 1925 version, which is this version on Goodreads that I'm reviewing. The 1925 version rearranged the vignettes and included longer short stories. I think I enjoyed the 1924 version better because some of the stories in the 1925 version were rather boring and didn't seem as powerful as other stories. However, there were still a bunch of stories and vignettes that I really enjoyed. Review to come in my wrap up for February, March, and April on my channel.
