Men Without Women: Stories

Ernest Hemingway's second collection of short stories commanded popular and critical attention when it was published in 1927. Hemingway examines men who are estranged from the women in their lives as they navigate situations involving bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. The author uses his hallmark style of precise language with an eye for realism. The collection contains fourteen stories, including "Hills Like White Elephants," "In Another Country," and "The Killers." A member of the expatriate Lost Generation circle, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) cultivated a larger-than-life image of vigorous masculinity complemented by an intense sensitivity. His writing drew upon his adventures as a big-game hunter, bullfighter, and fisherman as well as his service as an ambulance driver during World War I.