Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

Robert E. Fleming (University of New Mexico)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1925

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

In Our Time (1925) was Ernest Hemingway's first book published in the USA. In Paris he had previously published a much shorter book, in our time, (1924), in a tiny edition of just 170 copies. The earlier book collected eighteen numbered “chapters,” very short sketches, only a few of which exceeded a single page. The little book consisted of just 32 pages, including front matter. Each chapter evoked the emotions of characters under stress, using subjects from World War I, Spanish bullfights, and Hemingway's experience as a reporter and correspondent in Kansas City, Missouri, and in the Greco-Turkish war.

When Hemingway published his first US edition, he included the sketches from in our time, alternating t…

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "In Our Time". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 March 2001 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4529, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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