Hemingway at his best and worst. Some of the classics—spare, direct, startling in their power to evoke a setting or a character, harsh and unsentimental, and mostly tragic or at least sad—death, failure, loss of power and ability with aging, the impossibility of love and relationships, the beauty of Spain and Africa, the simple courage of man or beast in the hunt or the bullring, the futility, pain, and filth of war. It’s all here! In a preface, Hemingway lists his favorites—“The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber,” “In Another Country” (Milan WWI, damaged leg), “Hills Like White Elephants” (Spam, Jig, Train Station, abortion), “A Way You’ll Never Be” (Nick Adam, WWI, Italy, US soldiers at Austrian front), “Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “A Clean Well Lighted Place” (two waiters in a café, nada, insomnia), “The Light of the World (two Americans at a train station with five whores, six white men, and four Indians, someplace in the northwest US). Favorites of mine included the Nick Adams fly fishing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in “Big Two-Hearted River.” Fine work!