Big Two-Hearted River (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1919 or 1920
- Setting: The woods of Michigan's upper peninsula
- Principal Characters: Nick Adams
- Genres: Short fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Nature, War, Fishing or fishermen, Camping, campers, or campgrounds
- Locales: Michigan
The Story
“Big Two-Hearted River” is one of the best stories by one of the greatest short-story writers of the twentieth century. “The story was about coming back from the war,” as Ernest Hemingway later explained in A Moveable Feast (1964), “but there was no mention of the war in it.” Unless the reader knows In Our Time (1924, 1925), Hemingway's first collection of short stories, “Big Two-Hearted River” will not make complete sense. The first five stories in that collection describe the young Nick Adams growing up in and around the northern...
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