Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.

在他所有作品中，令海明威最早成名并且经久不衰的，当属他开创一代文风的短篇小说。这些小说以陈述句为主，描写精准，对白简短，给读者以最直接生动的印象，影响了世界上许多现当代作家。本书收录了海明威的全部短篇小说。上册收录了1938年出版的作家的第一部完整的短篇小说集，即“首辑49篇”，包括《乞力马扎罗的雪》等传世名篇；另有6篇未收入“首辑49篇”，而显然属于同一时期的作品一并放在“附录”中

在他所有作品中，令海明威最早成名并且经久不衰的，当属他开创一代文风的短篇小说。这些小说以陈述句为主，描写精准，对白简短，给读者以最直接生动的印象，影响了世界上许多现当代作家。本书收录了海明威的全部短篇小说。下册收录了“首辑49篇”后发表于书刊上的短篇小说及早先未发表过的小说，共21篇。附录中另有5篇，为原版全集中没有收入、上世纪八十年代中期才发现的。