Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A Day's Wait, A Simple Enquiry, A Very Short Story, A Way You'll Never Be, Big Two-Hearted River, Cat in the Rain, Che Ti Dice La Patria?, Fathers and Sons (short story), Fifty Grand, Hills Like White Elephants, Indian Camp, In Another Country, Now I Lay Me, Soldier's Home, The Battler, The Capital of the World (short story), The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, The End of Something, The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio, The Killers (short story), The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (story), The Three-Day Blow, The Undefeated (short story), Up in Michigan. Excerpt: "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is heard just twice. The story explores the destructive qualities of war which is countered by the healing and regenerative powers of nature. When it was published, critics praised Hemingway's sparse writing style and it became an important work in his canon. The story is one of Hemingway's earliest pieces to employ his Iceberg Theory of writing; a modernist approach to prose in which the underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than explicitly stated. "Big Two-Hearted River" is almost exclusively descriptive and intentionally devoid of plot. Hemingway was influenced by the visual innovations of Cézanne's paintings and adapted the painter's idea of presenting background minutiae in lower focus than the main image. In this story, the small details of a fishing trip are explored in great depth, while the landscape setting, and most obviously the swamp, are given cursory attention. In 1922, Hemingway moved with his wife Hadley to Paris, where he worked as foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. He became friends with and was influenced by modernist writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. The year 1923 saw his first published work, a slim volume titled Three Stories and Ten Poems, followed the next year by another collection of short vignettes, in our time (without capitals). Hoping to have in our time published in New York, in 1924 he began writing stories to add to the volume with "Big Two-Hearted River" planned as the final piece. He started writing the story in May of that year but did not finish until September as he spent the summer helping Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford launch th