Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer. He has always excelled in that medium, and this volume reveals him at his best.

The volume included the following stories: "After the Storm" "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" "The Light of the World" "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" "The Sea Change" "A Way You'll Never Be" "The Mother of a Queen" "One Reader Writes" "Homage ...

"Written in 1933 and one of Hemingway's lesser-known books, Winner Take Nothing was his third and final collection of short stories. These stories are about loners and losers and misfits and ne'er-do-wells.

Fourteen of Hemingway's finest short stories illuminate his keen perception of human nature as well as his prowess in this genre.

Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.Hemingway - himself a ...

The stories in "Winner Take Nothing," written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative abilities, gleam with the mark of his singular ability.

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat.

Accepting an assignment from the CIA to take out an arms dealer who is supplying criminal groups in Southeast Asia, assassin-for-hire John Rain finds the job compromised by a rival assassin and the fear that he is being set up. Reprint.