Men Without Women

In Hemingway's characteristically laconic and concentrated prose, here are fourteen short stories that reinforced Hemingway as an incisive and exceptional writer when they were first published in 1927.

In these tales shorn of sensitivity and femininity, one meets real men gunslingers, bullfighters, soldiers, jockeys, gangsters engaged in their macho pursuits, living life recklessly and resiliently. Hemingway's chiselled and sinewy sentences befit the stories he is telling as much as his characters make it crucial for the prose to be terse, hard-edged and masculine.