# The First Forty-Nine Stories

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- Book: [The First Forty-Nine Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-hemingway/the-first-forty-nine-stories) ([The First Forty-Nine Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-hemingway/the-first-forty-nine-stories.md))
- Authors: [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-hemingway)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9933-921-2
- Pages: 480
- Published: 1995-01-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: '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 to 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.' A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'Fifty Grand', and 'The Light of the World', and the Snows of Kilimanjaro , Winner Take Nothing' and Men Without Women collections.