In Our Time – Ernest Hemingway (1928)
This revised and expanded edition of Hemingway’s debut (originally published in 1925 as in our time) features his signature minimalist prose across a series of vignettes and short stories. The collection alternates between brief, impressionistic “interchapters” (many inspired by Hemingway’s experiences in World War I) and longer narratives like Big Two-Hearted River, which follows Nick Adams’ quiet fishing trip as a form of postwar healing. The 1928 version, published by Scribner’s with Hemingway’s added stories (On the Quai at Smyrna, Indian Camp), marks the full emergence of his “iceberg theory” of writing—where submerged tension lurks beneath spare surfaces.
If You Appreciated This, Try:
- Men Without Women (Hemingway, 1927) – More lean, masculine-coded stories.
- Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson, 1919) – Linked vignettes of small-town life.
- The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway, 1926) – His first novel’s postwar disillusionment.
