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A review by lynch626
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
4.0
I loved this collection of Hemingway short stories:
1. Three Shots: Nick gets afraid while camping and calls his father and uncle in from fishing
2. Indian Camp: Nick's father helps an Indian woman through childbirth and delivers the baby
3. The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife: Nick's faher is called out for attempting to steal wood from the river
4. Ten Indians: Nick gets made fun of by some boys for having an Indian girlfriend. Nick's father says he caught her fooling around with another boy. Nick is upset about it.
5. The Indians Moved Away: The Indians are lazy and not hard working. After the last one living in the area dies, Nick's grandpa cannot rent his cabin to white people anymore
6. The Light of the World: Nick and his friend Tom get in a spat with a bartender, then head down to the station where they talk with 3 fat whores and some white men.
7. The Battler: Nick meets a battler at the station who offers him some food, then accuses him of being a mooch and tries to punch him. The battler's negro friend knocks him out and apologizes to Nick that the battler gets too crazy sometimes. He offers him a sandwich and tells him to be on his way before the battler wakes up.
8. The Killers: 2 men come into the restaurant where Nick is eating and hold it up. They threaten the manager and cook unless they can tell him where a man names Ole Andersen is at. They say they want to kill him. Andersen is at home, and Nick goes there to warn him about the killers. Andersen appears apathetic.
9. The Last Good Country: This was the longest story and my favorite. 2 wardens catch Nick shooting and killing out of season and threaten to take him away, so he and his little sister escape to the woods. The story is unfinished.
10. Crossing the Mississippi: A short vingette on how Nick feels when he crosses the Mississippi River for the first time.
11. Night Before Landing: Nick is on a ship going off to war. He and another solider share a bottle of wine in a lifeboat and talk about life and women.
12. "Nick sat against the wall...": A paragraph that describes a battle scence where Nick and another soldier are wounded and waiting for medics to come. The other soldier will not make it.
13. Now I Lay Me: Nick has been wounded in battle and is in a hospital, but he is unable to sleep. He ponders many deep life questions and has a conversation with his hospital mate.
14. A Way You'll Never Be: Nick is suffering from PTSD and bike's across a battle field to try to deliver supplies to another batallion.
15. In Another Country: Nick is in a hospital with 4 other wounded soldiers trying to use therapy machines to regain use of their wounded limbs.
16. Big Two-Hearted River: Nick comes back to Michigan on a fishing trip after serving in the war.
17. The End of Something: Nick and Marjorie, the girl he is dating, spend a day fishing and row out to a beach. Nick breaks up with her there saying the relationship is "no longer fun."
18. The Three-Day Blow: Nick and his friend Bill spend a rainy day at Bill's cabin drinking whiskey. They discuss nick breaking up iwth Marjorie.
19. Summer People: Nick is at a swimming hole with a group of friends. We see that Odgar and Kate are dating, but Odgar is kind of a loser and Nick really wants Kate. Nick and Kate meet up late at night in the woods and have sex.
20. Wedding Day: Two of Nick's friends are drinking whiskey while they assist Nick in getting dressed on his wedding day. The story ends there.
21. On Writing: A deleted ending to Big Two-Hearted River Nick is talking about the fish he has just caught and is looking for more.
22. An Alpine Idyll: Nick and his friend witness a funeral at the end of a day of skiing.
23. Cross-Counry Snow: Nick and his uncle George are skiing.
24. Fathers and Sons: Nick is driving home with his son after a hunting trip in his home town.
1. Three Shots: Nick gets afraid while camping and calls his father and uncle in from fishing
2. Indian Camp: Nick's father helps an Indian woman through childbirth and delivers the baby
3. The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife: Nick's faher is called out for attempting to steal wood from the river
4. Ten Indians: Nick gets made fun of by some boys for having an Indian girlfriend. Nick's father says he caught her fooling around with another boy. Nick is upset about it.
5. The Indians Moved Away: The Indians are lazy and not hard working. After the last one living in the area dies, Nick's grandpa cannot rent his cabin to white people anymore
6. The Light of the World: Nick and his friend Tom get in a spat with a bartender, then head down to the station where they talk with 3 fat whores and some white men.
7. The Battler: Nick meets a battler at the station who offers him some food, then accuses him of being a mooch and tries to punch him. The battler's negro friend knocks him out and apologizes to Nick that the battler gets too crazy sometimes. He offers him a sandwich and tells him to be on his way before the battler wakes up.
8. The Killers: 2 men come into the restaurant where Nick is eating and hold it up. They threaten the manager and cook unless they can tell him where a man names Ole Andersen is at. They say they want to kill him. Andersen is at home, and Nick goes there to warn him about the killers. Andersen appears apathetic.
9. The Last Good Country: This was the longest story and my favorite. 2 wardens catch Nick shooting and killing out of season and threaten to take him away, so he and his little sister escape to the woods. The story is unfinished.
10. Crossing the Mississippi: A short vingette on how Nick feels when he crosses the Mississippi River for the first time.
11. Night Before Landing: Nick is on a ship going off to war. He and another solider share a bottle of wine in a lifeboat and talk about life and women.
12. "Nick sat against the wall...": A paragraph that describes a battle scence where Nick and another soldier are wounded and waiting for medics to come. The other soldier will not make it.
13. Now I Lay Me: Nick has been wounded in battle and is in a hospital, but he is unable to sleep. He ponders many deep life questions and has a conversation with his hospital mate.
14. A Way You'll Never Be: Nick is suffering from PTSD and bike's across a battle field to try to deliver supplies to another batallion.
15. In Another Country: Nick is in a hospital with 4 other wounded soldiers trying to use therapy machines to regain use of their wounded limbs.
16. Big Two-Hearted River: Nick comes back to Michigan on a fishing trip after serving in the war.
17. The End of Something: Nick and Marjorie, the girl he is dating, spend a day fishing and row out to a beach. Nick breaks up with her there saying the relationship is "no longer fun."
18. The Three-Day Blow: Nick and his friend Bill spend a rainy day at Bill's cabin drinking whiskey. They discuss nick breaking up iwth Marjorie.
19. Summer People: Nick is at a swimming hole with a group of friends. We see that Odgar and Kate are dating, but Odgar is kind of a loser and Nick really wants Kate. Nick and Kate meet up late at night in the woods and have sex.
20. Wedding Day: Two of Nick's friends are drinking whiskey while they assist Nick in getting dressed on his wedding day. The story ends there.
21. On Writing: A deleted ending to Big Two-Hearted River Nick is talking about the fish he has just caught and is looking for more.
22. An Alpine Idyll: Nick and his friend witness a funeral at the end of a day of skiing.
23. Cross-Counry Snow: Nick and his uncle George are skiing.
24. Fathers and Sons: Nick is driving home with his son after a hunting trip in his home town.