Nick Adams Stories

This collection was published in its American edition approximately (11) years after Hemingway’s death. These stories were compiled from Hemingway’s literary legacy, as well as from stories that Hemingway himself had collected in his three short story collections: “In Our Time,” “Men Without Women,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” These were published by the famous American publishing house Charles Scribbins & Sons in 1972.
The author of the introduction to this collection indicated that all of these stories, which are united by a main character: Nick Adams, are published under the title “The Nick Adams Stories.” Although some of these stories had been previously published in collections, as noted here, the publishers of Hemingway’s unpublished works decided to publish them together (whether published before his death or not) in chronological order. This arrangement gives the collection an organic unity that sheds light on Hemingway’s earlier and later writings and clarifies much of what has been obscure about Hemingway’s personality and the broader scope of his life and works.
Convinced by the argument of the author of the introduction and by those who cooperated in publishing the collection, we publish it here in its entirety, as it appeared in the 1972 New York edition, with the new stories printed in boldface Arabic instead of the italics in the American edition.