Overview

As denoted by the title of the blog, all these stories come from the Scribner Finca Vigia Edition. My goal is to simply read them and talk about them in the same way I would if I were still in university — you know, ‘deconstruct’ them and stuff.

I’ll put the names all down here and update the links as they are completed. If you’d like to comment on the blog as a whole, you can do so below.

Part I: ‘The First Forty-nine’

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

The Capital of the World

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Old Man at the Bridge

Up in Michigan

On the Quai at Smyrna

Indian Camp

The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife

The End of Something

The Three-Day Blow

The Battler

A Very Short Story

Soldier’s Home

The Revolutionist

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot

Cat in the Rain

Out of Season

Cross-Country Snow

My Old Man

Big Two-Hearted River: Part I

Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

The Undefeated

In Another Country

Hills Like White Elephants

The Killers

Che Ti Dice La Patria?

Fifty Grand

A Simple Enquiry

Ten Indians

A Canary for One

An Alpine Idyll

A Pursuit Race

Today Is Friday

Banal Story

Now I Lay Me

After the Storm

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

The Light of the World

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

The Sea Change

A Way You’ll Never Be

The Mother of a Queen

One Reader Writes

Homage to Switzerland

A Day’s Wait

A Natural History of the Dead

Wine of Wyoming

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio

Fathers and Sons

Part II: Published in Books or Magazines Subsequent to ‘The First Forty-nine’

One Trip Across

The Tradesman’s Return

The Denunciation

The Butterfly and the Tank

Night Before Battle

Under the Ridge

Nobody Ever Dies

The Good Lion

The Faithful Bull

Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog

A Man of the World

Summer People

The Last Good Country

An African Story

Part III: Previously Unpublished Fiction

A Train Trip

The Porter

Black Ass at the Cross Roads

Landscape with Figures

I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something

Great News From the Mainland

The Strange Country