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  Title: The First Forty-Nine Stories Author: Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow Books, UK Year published: 2004 467 pages From the back cover: "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." - Ernest Hemingway, from his Preface A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring an 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 Tak...

  Title: Islands in the Stream Author: Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow Books, UK Year published: 2012 450 pages From the back cover: First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream follow the fortunes of artist and adventurer Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream Island of Bimini to wartime activities off the coast of Cuba during the 1940s. Beguiling, exciting, tragic, it is a superb late work by one of America's greatest writers.  

  Title: The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War Author: Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow Books, UK Year published: 2013 174 pages From the back cover: Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade. Featuring the author's only full-length play, the works recount decadent parties and doomed love affairs amid the rubble, and effortlessly capture the devastating effects of the war on the inhabitants of the city.