The Nick Adams Stories

One of Hemingways most famous characters appears in these great works. He had written well enough about the place where he had grown up. He did the best he could at the time. In an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro a dying writer had this insight. Ernest Hemingway of course was the author. The setting was his childhood vacations in Michigan when he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous Nick Adams stories depict a memorable figure developing from a toddler to an adolescent to a soldier veteran writer and parent in a timeline that closely resembles Hemingways life. Nick Adams emerges as the first in a long line of Hemingways fictitious identities in this arrangement. Later versions were to have a bit of Nicks and by extension Hemingways background behind them. For lovers of the legendary novelist this is a must-have...See More