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Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway · 1927

This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short fiction, including “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Fifty Grand,” which a Cosmopolitan editor praised as “one of the best short… more

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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You have to emend yourself. A man who doesn't sleep cannot live.
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He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.
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The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.
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Are you married?" "No, but I hope to be." "The more of a fool you are," he said. He seemed very angry. "A man must not marry. "Why, Signor Maggiore?" "Don't call me 'Signor Maggiore.'" "Why must not a man marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose." He spoke very angrily and bitterly, and looked straight ahead while he talked. "But why should he necessarily lose it?" "He'll lose it.
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Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.
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İyiyim. Git sen. Ben biraz yatacağım. Öğleye doğru kalkarım." Ama Mr. Turner öğle vakti William Campbell'in odasına geldiğinde William Campbell uyuyordu, Mr Turner da hayatta nelerin değerli olduğunu bildiği için onu uyandırmadı.
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Geceleyin uyandığında, kulübenin dışında ağaçların arasında esen rüzgârı, gölün kıyıya çarpan dalgalarını duydu, sonra yeniden uyudu. Sabahleyin sert sert esiyordu rüzgâr, dalgalar kıyıya vuruyordu, uzun süre uyanık kaldı, sonra da gönlünün kırılmış olduğunu hatırladı.
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This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short fiction, including “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Fifty Grand,” which a Cosmopolitan editor praised as “one of the best short stories that ever came to my hands.” Read by an Earphones Award–winning narrator.

Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains the following fourteen stories: The Undefeated, In Another Country, Hills Like White Elephants, The Killers, Che Ti Dice La Patria?, Fifty Grand, A Simple Enquiry, Ten Indians, A Canary for One, An Alpine Idyll, A Pursuit Race, Today is Friday, Banal Story, Now I Lay Me. Themes and subject matter range from bullfighting, boxing, and prizefighting to divorce, infidelity, and death. Critics at the time praised Hemingway’s concise langua

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1927
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