Printed in Paris in 1924 in a series edited by Ezra Pound, this tiny book holds eighteen numbered vignettes, most only a paragraph long. A drunken battery marches toward Champagne in the dark, matadors are gored one after another, cabinet ministers are shot against a hospital wall, and a Hungarian refugee travels Italy on a party pass.
The first form of the interchapters in the later In Our Time: Hemingway’s prose stripped to the bone. Download the free EPUB.