A blacksmith and a hotel girl in Hortons Bay, a sour fishing trip in the Italian Alps, and a boy watching his jockey father race in Italy and France make up the three stories. The ten poems that follow range from the machine guns of the war to Montparnasse, written in the plain, clipped manner that would soon become his signature.
Hemingway’s first book, a slim Paris edition of 1923, shows the style of In Our Time already arriving. Download the free EPUB.