The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ernest Hemingway

Arrow, 1994 - Fiction - 138 pages

Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a feat of imagination, and a masterpiece of description. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is one of the best known and loved collections of stories by one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century.

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro; Arrow Books; Arrow. classic
• Author: Ernest Hemingway
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Arrow, 1994
• ISBN: 0099908808, 9780099908807
• Length: 138 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)