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The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway's work, edited by the author's grandson Sen and introduced by his son Patrick, this ';illuminating' (The Washington Post) collection includes the best of the well-known classics as well as unpublished stories, early drafts, and notes that ';offer insight into the mind and methods of one of the greatest practitioners of the story form' (Kirkus Reviews). Ernest Hemingway is a cultural iconan archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exilebut, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image. Of all of Hemingway's canonical fictions, perhaps none demonstrate so forcefully the power of the author's revolutionary style as his short stories. In classics like ';Hills like White Elephants,' ';The Butterfly in the Tank,' and ';The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,' Hemingway shows us great literature compressed to its most potent essentials. We also see, in Hemingway's short fiction, the tales that created the legend: these are stories of men and women in lo