Jan 3, 2010

Indian Camp | Summary

“Indian Camp” was written by Hemingway in the early 1920s and first appeared in the April, 1924, issue of the literary journal Transatlantic. It is one of his best-known short works, and this is partly due to its being the first in a series of the Nick Adams tales. It initiates a sequence of stories that follows Nick from boyhood through his combat experience in World War I and into his post-war disillusionment as a wounded veteran trying to adjust to normal, civil society. The autobiographical parallels between Nick...